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The Power of Palladium

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-slices-it-dices dept.

phriedom writes "Salon has coverage of Palladium which gives first page coverage to the idea that Palladium is designed to kill open source software. My favorite part though is on page two, where the Microsoft apologist says that ones view of Palladium 'depends on what you believe Microsoft's long-term aims are. If you believe it's to stimulate commerce and stimulate security, it's a step in the right direction ...and if you're perhaps given to suspicions that Microsoft always makes decisions with the aim of frustrating competitors of the Windows empire rather than for the good of consumers, you might have a different view of the same architecture.'" Wired also has a story claiming under-the-hood exposure to Palladium, although it doesn't seem to have much information that hasn't come out already. Update by J : Steven Levy's Palladium story, which we linked to in an earlier article, has allegedly been pulled from MSNBC's website. Anyone know if there's a simple explanation of this?

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  1. Re:Details on Palladium from EFF's Seth Schoen... by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Those "FP and goatse guys" are -1 Offtopic, not -1 Flamebait or -1 Troll. Hell, most of the FP guys are also -1 Redundant, since they're claiming first post but are usually the second, third, forth, or fifth post. So he's not saying FP and goatse posts are "right", you're just moderating them incorrectly (not that it matters, -1 is -1).

    Oh, and this thread is -1 Offtopic, but if you mod me such please also mod the parent to match. Thanks.

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  2. Re:yup by The+Living+Fractal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fucking dumb moderators call you Insightful for pointing out the obvious... and the past?

    You're weak, and a Karma whore.

    Mod me down, please. If Slashdot Karma comes from people like this, I DON'T WANT IT.

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  3. Re:yup by The+Living+Fractal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Prakash?

    Hmm I had a prof named Prakash.

    Sweet name.

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  4. Simple explanation by pkinetics · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Digging through their site, the answer is fairly simple. NewsWeek archives old news, and then charges you to access historical articles.

    Anchorage Daily News does the same thing.

    I didn't buy the archived message, but this link should take you to the search results to get to it.