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Re: Microslosh vision of the future

  • From: William Warren
  • Date: Mon Aug 12 12:25:15 2002
a little bit of humor never hurt anything..not even nanog will be destroyed..

Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
does this belong on nanog?

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, William Warren wrote:

  
Microsoft has shown itself time and time again it thinks it can get away
with something like that and going by Microsoft's past behaviors....do
not be surprised to see Microsoft try this exact scheme later on down
the road...as it builds support with many other monopolistic
parties(mainly the RIAA and MPAA..i will not touch on them directly
here) to eliminate any and all competition.

<grin> who knows..maybe we will "get lucky" and the Big Brother computer
system of revelations will be a microsoft product and therefore will be
easily hacked?



Kevin Oberman wrote:

    
While I find much to worry about in Palladium, the vast majority of
the information in this post is simply not correct. Even Microsoft is
not delusional enough to think that they could get away with such a
coup. (Not that they would not want to.)

Before going ballistic, read up on Palladium and how it works. Then we
can all have a somewhat intelligent discussion of where it might lead.

Palladium does a number of very good things. It certainly will NOT
block running whatever OS you prefer. It is debatable just whether it
does DRM. Microsoft says it is not a DRM tool, but it sure seems to
have at least mot of the pieces required for full DRM.

Slashdot has had some pointers to a number of excellent (and some not
so excellent) articles on Palladium form a number of sources on both
sides of the issue. I strongly urge that you read them before either
panicing or causing others to do so. Opposition may be justified and
it may not, depending on many small technical points that may not be
completely clear at this time.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



      
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May God Bless you and everything you touch.

My "foundation" verse:
Isiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.