Analyzing Palladium

apeir0 writes "The Register has a story which proposes an ulterior motive to Microsoft's new Palladium: a GPL-killer. 'It's the very fact that this appears insoluble to me that helps me realize that MS has put tremendous, careful thought into it. To make the commons Linux-hostile, MS is taking dramatic steps to make it GPL-hostile. Very clever and admirably diabolical.' Is this a valid point or just paranoia?" Ross Anderson has been writing about this recently; we covered his paper a few days ago, and he's now got a Palladium FAQ up. Another submitter sent in this interview with the Microsoft manager in charge of Palladium. The Washington Post has a column. Update: 06/27 22:43 GMT by T : Bob Cringely also has a column on Palladium up, in which he says that several of his fears have been realized by it.

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a million times: no.

[denttford]

"Palladium is all about deciding what's trustworthy. It not only lets your computer know that you're you..."

I refuse to have my computer settle any existential problems before I do.

Especially when running software sold by the pasty white guy with a red light on his head.

Megalomania

[DiscoBiscuit]

I for one am worried by this, as a previous poster said...very 1984 like...

Despite all the DOJ stuff Microsoft continues to try and rule the world. Where will the madness end. The megalomania shown by M$ is terrifying. Maybe bill has issues with his penis size or something and this is some kind of release..

Re:If if changes the Unix/Linux security model, fi

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. Now I know why all those formerly smug bearded fucks are so angry at Microsoft and have done everything in their power to block NT.