On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:15:16AM -0700, Turnpike Man wrote: > Now this is definitely ON topic! :) What is it about trusted computing that > won't make Linux usable?
>From RMS: Note: The word "treacherous" stands in for "trusted" in his article. Treacherous computing puts the existence of free operating systems and free applications at risk, because you may not be able to run them at all. Some versions of treacherous computing would require the operating system to be specifically authorized by a particular company. Free operating systems could not be installed. Some versions of treacherous computing would require every program to be specifically authorized by the operating system developer. You could not run free applications on such a system. If you did figure out how, and told someone, that could be a crime. (ref. http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/10/21/1449250.shtml?tid=19) FWIW, this is a public forum sponsered by an organization that has claimed certain priviledges under the US tax code. The first amendment of the US Constitution upholds one's right to make comments on this list because it is a public list. If someone is bent on using this list as a political soapbox it cannot be stopped. If you do not like the politics, ignore the offending email and don't respond. (ref. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/) Heh. Phone just rang. It was a PAC for healthcare issues. I told them to go away. PAC and candidates were exempted from the Do Not Call law recently upheld by the Supreme Court. I think that helps make the point. I am subscribed to the phone network and I know that I will get annoying political calls. I simply use the delete function. It is interesting that this thread is sumultaneously found concern over too free OT speech and the threat of corporate efforts to limit the abilities of our computers to communicate. -- Mike Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- 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
