On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:15 am, Turnpike Man wrote: > Now this is definitely ON topic! :) What is it about trusted computing > that won't make Linux usable? > > thanks, > David
I can't answer that, but I can tell you that the old UCITA law for all practical purposes outlawed reverse engineering (even though reverse engineering wasn't mentioned in the law). Goodbye Samba, at least in the U.S. The SSSCA law proposed in 2001, and reproposed later as CBDTPA, would have mandated copy protection in every computer program, and such copy protection probably would have been of an incompatible license with the GPL. Goodbye Linux. I wrote about SSSCA here: http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200111/200111.htm Microsoft is very aware that they can't use their favorite weapon, revenue starvation, against Linux, because Linux needs no revenue to continue. That's why you see more and more petitioning of the government to restrict Linux. Meanwhile, the big copyright holders have their own agenda -- they want to prevent copying, no matter what the cost. In other words, the only way Linux will die is at the hand of the government, and the only way to prevent that is for us to be at least a little politically aware. SteveT Steve Litt Founder and acting president: GoLUG http://www.golug.org -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
