Like most things from microsoft, this was probably some idiot in marketing who thought: "Hmmm, well, hardware is stronger than software right? So a hardware drm would also be stronger! ...Let's do it, and call it...hmmm...ah, Palladium is an expensive metal, let's call it that!!"
It'll probably end up being like intel's chip serial number fiasco that you can disable in the bios, afterwhich you can install non-drm software. Windows probably won't work with it disabled, but who cares, it's windows! Le Vendredi, 20 sept 2002, � 04:21 Canada/Mountain, Richard Jenniss a �crit : > You need the cpu to load the OS. > How do you verify the OS is signed properly while you are loading it? > Unless its a static key? yes / no? > > Sounds like a last ditch attempt by microsoft to thrwart open source. > I don't see Palladium getting very far. > It is to be used to enhanced security, but not computer security. > Secure market share. > > Spread the word, to ignore all products with "palladium" and tell them > why. > It is aiming towards complete censorship, corporate facism.
