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MS Palladium Patent
Concerned Citizen writes "cryptome has Microsoft's patent for Palladium. Including such gems as: 2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein protecting the rights-managed data comprises:
refusing to load the untrusted program into memory. 14. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising:
restricting a user to a subset of available functions for manipulating the rights-managed data.
And I'm sure we'll all be coerced to agree to Palliadium during a future security patch agreement."
But wait: doesn't M$ 0wn apple? (25% stock?) Does anyone know about DRM plans on mac?
You've got to be kidding me... MS sold their stock forever ago, plus it was NON-VOTING stock! MS never had anything to say with apple, except what the normal largest apple ISV would have to say. Plus, the Mac Biz Unit is run as a seperate company for all intents and purposes. Apple has no stated direction on DRM, except perhaps putting the DRM on the user with stickers like "Don't steal music" on the iPod. The Mac is a digital media creation system (Look at Final Cut and the recent film/video and music/sound software company purchases) and it would be sad for Apple to hobble it with DRM.
-- Chris Martin, System Administrator
Apple is Microsoft's bitch, accept it. Who is the #1 software maker for Apple computers? Microsoft.
And your point is what exactly? Do you think that MS doesn't make money off Office:Mac? Do you think that MS would put up with the MBU if they weren't a profit center? I'm not discounting a point but the facts remains. 1. Apple is a viable computing platform and 2. MS produces Office for the Mac. Both of these points tie into each other, but still stand on their own.
The 3D industry is moving whole hog to Linux, and once Film-Gimp is fully acceptable, or Adobe ports Photoshop, it is all over. Renderfarms yes, replacing SGI's, maybe, but where are the tools that aren't custom built? Where is Maya, photoshop, etc.? As for Gimp, exactly NONE of the graphics artists I know, and non of the photographers use anything but photoshop and all of them rely on the color correction built into the Mac OS (colorsync) and non of these people would put up with XWindows and it's inconsistancies. True, I know a very small section of these types of people, but of the few that I know, they are not geeks. All of these tools are great (Gimp, etc.) but there is a lot more that goes into the process that just the creation/editing tool of choice. Plus, you seem to discount the fact that Mac OS X has all of these tools already and people are starting use them and buy more Mac's.
-- Chris Martin, System Administrator
Contrary to what this "Anonymous Moron" thinks, there are plenty of us "Microsoftians" that regularly post to this over-rated BLOG of our own accord to somehow bring some sanity to the rabid Anti-Microsoft propaganda spewed-forth by linux-o-philes and penguin fetishists here.
/. supporting Microsoft is proportional to as every ad hominem, "rail-splitting" and/or "straw man" attack against Microsoft. Rabid Linux-lovers who get a cheap thrill out of appearing to be some sort of "Digeratti" by attacking Microsoft do more damage to their own cause than to Microsoft, but their left-wing liberalist yen-to-protest-against-the-establishment drives them to such sophomoric attempts at "self-expression" as the creation of the plethora of Microsoft parody websites.
/.), claiming that Apple was in league with Satan, etc. What's wrong, boys - don't like it when someone gets in your face like you do to others?
Everyone knows, and hackers acknowledge that Linux is the preferred OS for hacking, website defacement, DDoS attack GENERATION & CONTROL (notice I specifically said "GENERATION, ORIGINATION & CONTROL") and a host of other plain EVIL things on the Internet.
The volumn of post at
How funny it is that people who constantly blather-on about Bill Gates being the son of Satan, the Anti-Christ or actually being Satan himself laughed-off similar "religiously-toned" Anti-Apple web-sites that appeared recently (sorry - forgot the URL and I can't find it on
Utterly Incredible!!!
ScottKin
I don't give a rat's behind about "karma" here or anywhere else. Don't like what I have to say here? Deal with it!
Some spectacular failures from MS.
MS Bob.
MS at work (you remember this one it was supposed to be in copiers and faxes and stuff).
Windows ME
Hailstorm.
Windows CE.
Xbox.
Ultimate TV.
WEBTV (or whatever it was called)
Even to some extent SQL server and IIS each of which controls only about 30% of their markets.
In any other company even one failure of this magnitude would have killed it. Imagine the amount of R&D, programming, marketing etc that went into creating webTV. It was probably in the billions. The only company that can absorb that kind of a hit is MS thanks to their dual monopolies in Office and Windows.
This is where capitalism fell apart. MS can continue to develop products that fail in the market without damaging themselves. Other companies are not so lucky and one large failure will mean a collapse.
" If nobody trusts this system, it will not get into widespread use. Amazingly, Micro$oft does not succeed at everything."
I am trying to rack my brain and I can't think of one spectacular success they have had in the last five years. Can you help me out here? What product developed by MS in the last five years is dominating it's market? Of course I am not counting office and windows which are ongoing monopolies.
War is necrophilia.