On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: <snip> I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier today with the subject line:
AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the future. [quote] Since I have no idea to whom this should be directed I'll send it to the generic hardware support address. I have been reading in the tech press for some time regarding AMD's plans to include support for Microsoft and their "Palladium" or "Trusted Computing" initiative. I will state unequivocally that should this come to pass I will be a former customer of yours; as I was once a customer of Intel's, Microsoft's, Anti-Virus vendors (pick one), the music industry, the film industry, etc. I refuse to be bullied and indirectly accused of terrorism or thievery because I choose to play a compact disk or a DVD; that I purchased, on my computer. I refuse to allow Microsoft, the BSA, or any government agency, snoop through my personal files just because I might have kept a copy of a song from one of those disks in a compressed format on one of my hard drives for convenience. Once I have paid my money to use someone's "Intellectual Property" for an individual copy of the work I find it ludicrous that I must; in effect, request permission every time I wish to peruse the movie, listen to the recording, write a document, or boot the operating system of my choice on hardware that I own. Microsoft's "Everlasting Usurious Lease Agreement" is the primary reason I will never again load that corporation's software on a machine that is under my control. Your bowing to them in order to gain some soi disant advantages will be the reason I am no longer an AMD customer. It may be your undoing. Many of us read 1984 © and remembered what we read. Anything that smacks of "Big Brother" is so distasteful it's possible that it may become a "cause celebre." Can you say "Boycott?" By every GNU/Linux user on the planet? Anything is possible. I know the thoughts a message such as this generate in the recipient's mind; he's one consumer, probably one of those "Cancerous" operating system users/advocates, a hermit that is socially inept and reclusive, with no friends or influence. Or possibly just a rabble rousing trouble maker. Probably doesn't spend all that much on hardware anyway, right? Guess again; and I'll answer that with this question: How many of us are there? Can you afford to offend us all? Charlie Mahan Edmonton Alberta Canada September 24, 2002 [\quote] I received an automated acknowledgement, I wonder if a human being will read it. Fire retardant suit applied. ;) -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. -- William F. Buckley
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