June 26, 2002 08:20 pm, robin wrote: > Jay wrote: > >Don't know if this makes sense cause I don't know much about hardware > >encryption, but can't the community come together with a distributed .net > >type project to crack it? > > There is already an alternative to .net in the form of the liberty > alliance. > > Funny how quickly MS tire of their own "innovations", though. Six > months ago, .net was supposed to provide us all with the privacy, > security and convenience that Palladium is promising now. > > Sir Robin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It wasn't my intent to spread FUD or cause an argument but the latest in a long list of attempts to take the internet away from the "common person" has me more than a bit cranky.
Regardless of the contempt I personally feel for Microsoft and their business tactics; they still have enough clout in the real world, and enough customers that will never read anything more than official Waggener Edstrom press releases, to make life very miserable for anyone that holds an opposing view. Anyone that doesn't believe that can do a search for companies/technologies that were either 'embraced and extended' to death, or purchased outright after MS bullied them out of their skivvies and off the map. Or see the way the anti-trust trial turned out. The point isn't whether anyone that frequents this mailing list; or any other list or site devoted to 'mutual support' of open source software, would willingly bow to the will of "The Beast." It's whether Joe SixPack would even notice. If the average consumer doesn't hear why this idea should die aborning from people that are aware of what it means then we are abrogating our own freedoms. My original question was what we can do about it? I'm already receiving replies from people that I forwarded one of the many links about it to. Most are asking 'What the hell is this and what does it mean?' The best I've managed to offer so far is that if they want someone else to decide what they can see, where they can surf, even whether they're allowed to e-mail 'Auntie Em' a digital photo of 'little Festus' without the permission of the Almighty Microsoft in their benevolent wisdom, then leap right on that bandwagon and shout "Hallelujah!" 'Cause the all knowing, all seeing, "His Billness's" palladium may not allow Auntie Em to download it/open it even if you're allowed to send it. It may not be "Trusted" (tm). I'll never sell MS short where marketing and pulling the wool over JsP's eyes is concerned. If the company had any respect for anything they might actually build an OS that isn't swiss cheese when considered from a security and stability standpoint. I hope all those scoffing at the very idea of this getting off the ground are correct; but I won't stop telling people why they should refuse to buy into the latest crap from Microsoft either. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. -- Bertrand Russell
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