Re: TCPA/Palladium

2003-03-19 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:11:58PM +0100, Stephane wrote: > Comment réagissez vous face à l'imminence de la déferlante TCPA/Palladium ? > A priori Linux en général risque d'être une des nombreuses victimes de > ce projet ... effrayant ! Cette liste de diffusion est destinée a

TCPA/Palladium

2003-03-19 Thread Stephane
Comment réagissez vous face à l'imminence de la déferlante TCPA/Palladium ? A priori Linux en général risque d'être une des nombreuses victimes de ce projet ... effrayant !

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:30:20PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: AS> [Things written in flash are usually devoid of content. I generally agree with your sentiment against all these proprietary media formats, but I'd also like to point out that, while we have Ogg Vorbis (and now Tarkin), we don't

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
h. [Things written in flash are usually devoid of content. Quicktime is too expensive for most people, and realvideo looks *awful* compared to mpeg 2 or 4]. Content providers tend to be more interested in apparent quality (not actual quality) than technology buzzwords or security. This probably won

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:35:17AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > Luckily, if this happens to x86 some day, everyone in 'Free' communities > will have a damn good reason to leave this platform in droves. :) From what I've read, this won't actually work: TCPA enabled system

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Scott Dier
ffect. > Microsoft has bent its every division to a single goal in the past; it > would be foolish to assume that they aren't doing so this time. I'm guessing that someday that TCPA disabled-ability could go away much now Microsoft has slowly made sure 'Per Connection' typ

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:19:44PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completely all wrong. Recently a talk > was given at MIT by one of the designers of Microsoft Palladium (their > trusted computing initiative) at MIT. I was at the talk, which received > lots of

Re: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:19:44PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > The only negative thing I see comming out of TCPA is that content > producers (Hollywood, etc) will release copies of their > movies/music/whatever for download in a format that can only be accessed > on TCPA syste

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
[ I've pruned the giant list of innappropriate and off-topic CCs ] On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Hauke Goos-Habermann wrote: > Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This > technology is called TCPA. FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completel

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-02 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Hauke Goos-Habermann wrote: > Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This > technology is called TCPA. > What's TCPA in general you can read at the anti-tcpa site: > http://antitcpa.alsherok.net/ Please

Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-02 Thread Hauke Goos-Habermann
Hi, Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This technology is called TCPA. What's TCPA in general you can read at the anti-tcpa site: http://antitcpa.alsherok.net/ All OpenSource developers should think the same way: If TCPA becomes reality GPL is dead. Now we