Here is M$'s plan.
First see to it that fritz chips are on all PCs. That is so that everyone will have fritz chips even before paladium is out. Since they have already monopolied both Intel and AMD into TCPA, they seem to be achieveing this already. The only question is wether on not non fritz chips will be available at all in the near future. Notice that fritz chips are coming out even before Paladium is ready. The windoze upgrade cycle will ensure people have them.
Now that they have everyone on fritz already, and the have the masses using XP, they start putting paladium on people's computers. Remember their EULA's folks, thats right, M$ has the right to automatically install software on any computer using XP. People may not really want Paladium, well, they will get it anyways. Notice that many people have already adopted XP. And they will stop supporting and offering non-palladium software as well.
Now Bill 'Hitler' Gates has full control of peoples computers. So next, he sees to it that only signed software will run at all on the computers of the masses. This forces developers to make only signed software, which cannot run on linux. Perhaps he could even Monopoly the chipmakers into making it so that only windows runs on their chips, who knows, by this point he can do whatever he wants.
So, who is going to stop this from happening. Seems to me that the anti M$ folks are just waiting to see what the US gov does in its current lawsuit. Somehow I don't think were going to see anything significant from them. By the time the gov adresses the paladium issue, it will be too late. People are stupid. And they will just stand around and let this happen before their very eyes without even lifting a finger.
Anyway, I am scared of this because Paladium could easily get out and become mainstream even if nobody really wants it. M$ has a reputation of using every dirty trick in the book to force their will upon people. To stop this, its going to take a major move from someone. If serious action is not taken, M$ will get its way.
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