Here's a couple new stories concerning Palladium. Dancing at the Microsoft Palladium Posted: 08/07/2002 at 13:48 GMT (check out posting date....strange) Seems to be articles within an article/summary, dating back to April, but a lot of good information.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/26085.html ****************** Microsoft's smell of desperation Posted: 07/31/02 Consider this a call to arms. Those of us who relish our freedom need to defend it. Here are some warnings about mistakes we could make easily that would undermine any effort to prevent the worst of all fates: Companies don't have the right to violate our freedoms just to preserve an old system of making money after it has become obsolete, but they do have the right to make money. There's no reason why you should feel inclined to do their thinking for them and come up with alternative means of collecting revenues, but at least acknowledge that there's nothing wrong with charging for content. What's wrong is how they want to charge for content, and how they want to control your use of that content. While I'm happy that open source and free software often subvert the greed and control, sometimes the subversion leads to illegal piracy. That's when open source and free software deservedly get a bad reputation, and that's the ammunition companies and congress use to push unfair legislation. Don't give the enemy that ammunition or they'll use it to put our freedoms into an early grave. It doesn't matter if companies get more than their fair share for the sales of commercial CDs and DVDs, and it doesn't matter whether you are outraged that the artists don't get the slice of income they deserve. You may be right beyond all argument. Nevertheless, civil disobedience against a company's greed is not effective when it is expressed through your own greed. The people of the Boston tea party dumped the tea so that nobody could use it. That made a much more powerful statement than if they had stolen the tea. Similarly, if you express your civil disobedience by stealing music, you are simply making it more likely that the system we'll end up with is worse than the one you're complaining about now. http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0731.microsoft-p2.html ******************************* And this is an interesting article dated June 26, 2002. May be old news to some.... Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design Will studying Wave's Embassy systems in the AMD help one to comprehend the Palladium, which MS is not giving too many details.... http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,282114,00.asp Liz