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Thursday, June 27, 2002

Is Palladium the GPL Killer? -- 9:35 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

That's what The Register thinks anyway. Granted, this article is filled with the usual Register hubris, but there are a lot of good points made. The thing that gets me about Palladium is that it will not exist to enhance my security, but the content providers' security, ensuring that Joe Six Pack isn't doing naughty things with his computer. It assumes tacitly that every computer user is a crook who needs Microsoft's all-powerful hand to keep him in line. Right. Thankfully, I have complete trust and confidence that Microsoft will find a way to screw this up. Although with all the negative press I'm reading, even from more "mainstream" publications, they might never get the chance to screw it up. Thanks Slashdot.

J.t.Qbe comments: Yep, once again Microsoft is making a bid to take computing power out of the hands of the user. Are you ready to place ALL your trust in Microsoft?

But I think it's going to have a very tough time getting off the ground. This thing will need to sell millions to tens of millions in order to be successful, and I don't think that'll fly. Businesses will have to replace their existing PC inventory completely, and that's a LOT of cash. For what? For some extra "security." Average users will have to buy whole new computers. Why? Allegedly to protect from viruses and spam. When users find out what they'll have to give up, they'll say no. I hope so, anyway--there are a lot of sheep out there.

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