Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Wed, 15 Jan: > > "[Transmeta] claims its approach offers increased security for wireless > computing, protects sensitive data, "deters intellectual property > theft" (read Digital Rights Management (DRM) Inside) and delivers > tamper-resistant, x86 storage environments."
First off Linus is into the microcode compiler, not into hardware design (if I remember correctly). he DOES try to steer away from politics, and that CAN be a problem. it's one thing to "sit on the fence" on some issues, but it's an entirely different issue to belittle the opinions of others. As RMS once mentioned hen he recieved the "Linus Torvals Award", that it's like the Rebel fleet getting the Han Solo award. as for him being a traitor - as RMS puts it, he's like the national printers' association - any license is respected and allowed to live along the others, and prefering one product or technology on the other should be done according to technical standards, rather than licensing. signing an NDA and working with "problematic" licenses is not concern. RMS on the other hand has stated that he is more interested in freedom than advancing technology or creativity. I'm somewhere in the middle between the two, as I believe technology SHOULD move ahead AND remain free. RMS agrees on that, as I heard him answer at the IBM talk that it's ok for id software to sell propriatary code which they intend to release as free at a later time - "but not too late so it does not become obsolete and doesn't help people anymore once it's published". The problem that the "Treacherous Computing" is that it will stop you from running free software on proprietary OS (which many people do), in fact it would probably stop you from running many types of freewares and sharewares on Windows if their authors can't afford the signing procedure and enter the selective, closed circle of "trusted software", which means paying a higher "Microsoft tax" may actually deter people from publishing software in general, not to mention free software. Now Vadik, if you still think Treacherous Computing is not dangerous, just wait and see how it will effect you, even in your "protected" BSD world... I don't think Linus is a traitor, he just cares too little about freedom, and I hope DRM/Paladium-like features never make it into the main kernel (though I have no doubt that if the hardware platform will succeed on MS, some heartless hardware vendor may actually offer a kernel tree with such features). -- Apropos of nothing Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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