About M$ involvmelt

[luckyp3616]

I think M$ palladium and M$ themselves messed up TCPA.
M$ is crazy if they wanna ban linux. It should be illegal.

As I would like to do something about compaqs involvment (Looking at sig)
If I buy a new computer w/ palladium and tcpa, I am gonna try and install linux. If it fails, I am gonna call my lawyars on anti-trust law.

If it fails, I am gonna make a patch for bios and chip called (drumroll pleas!):

:fu: The FUCKMicrosoft patch! Downloadable with an included Slackware Linux Distro!

[MrX]

you're 13, you cannot afford lawyers. altho it is fun to say you can. a lawsuit against microsoft is a 'lose-lose' situation.

Mr X

[Annorax]

Lucky: Good luck. I suspect an antitrust lawsuit would go absolutely nowhere; I suspect Microsoft would be granted immunity from such a suit the moment they release this "innovative technology" because it would basically turn every computer in the world into a node in a surveillance network run by the FBI.. wait, NSA...err... CIA... shit, is it Section 31? Or maybe the Illuminati? It's a moot point anyway, TCPA is all but dead. If it were to arise from the dead, I suspect that non-TCPA hardware would still be manufactured outside the US and imported for those of us who don't want to be locked into a vicious and expensive Windows Longhorn TNG upgrade cycle. There will always be current hardware to run Linux on, as well as future hardware, right up until the point where TCPA goes into effect. It may be a massive pain in the ass, but it's not the stranglehold you make it out to be.

MrX: do you always have to be such an insufferable prick?

[luckyp3616]

Well, I might as well forget the lawsuit, but the patch wold be necessary to avoid the Lock-In, and if the FBI exec DMCA I WILL KICK SOME FBI BOOTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!