Just say NO

[Guest]

What is the deal with Microsoft's willingness to sell us
out?
I was just reading another article in The Register:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33729.html

This article talks about the NX bit set that sets off
a "secure" area
in the CPU so that Microsofts can impliment for "Next
Generation
Secure Computing Base" aka Palladium and this is to be
a "feature" on
all new CPUs in the pipe and on current Itanium and AMD64
CPUs. The
cynic would say that this was admission for Microsoft to
rewrite to 64
bit code.

Here is a blurb from Microsoft about NGSCB:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/ngscb/default.mspx

The two really bad things for the PC buyer is that you buy
a PC and
it's your property but billg and friends are the only ones
to get
admin on it so your PC now becomes an appliance and access
is
ultimatly controlled not by you but by Bill & Co. The
other really
bad thing is that now every PC with NX and XP SP2 or newer
OS ( with
Longhorn ) will have it's own unique ID that can be
remotely
manipulated. This lends itself nicely to unpopular things
like
software and hardware expiration and monitoring for bad
things like
music that is not approved of on your fixed disk.

Yes, in a broad sense it's not DRM but it seems much much
worse.

 

[Bruce J. Weiers]

It seems to me that protesting NX is like complaining about the
ill-effects of putting fluoride in the drinking water.

The basic objection to NX, and to fluoride, is that if we let them do
this obviously good thing, "they" will be able to do all these horrible,
unrelated things.

NX and DRM have no obvious relationship. NX is a good thing, as far as
it goes, which is not very far. So's fluoride in the drinking water;
most Americans under 35 have very few cavities.

If you want to influence IP (intellectual property) legislation, write
your congressman or donate to a political party and let your voice be
heard.

 

[Guest]

The best way is NOT to buy the new product!!!!!!!!

 

[Vagabond Software]

I don't know if they do it anymore, but this was standard operating
procedure for Sun Microsystems when I was doing SunOS development in the
early 90s. Want to move that X.25 WAN card to a new Sun Workstation?
Oops... not until you can call and get permission from Scott McNealy.

I think we paid around $1,500.00 for each network card and, of course, the
workstations ran us between $8,000 and $20,000... and we couldn't move a
network card (and the SunLink software) from one machine to another without
first calling and asking...

Yet, people still love Sun products and Sun's business practices and don't
believe that "security" strategy prevents much of a problem.

- carl

 

[Richard Urban]

Go away Kurt!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Go away Kurt!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

I am not Kurt. I am someone who has opened their eyes to
the truth! I now see the FUD that M$ spreads and now I
will speak out about it too. You cannot silence the truth!