Gates and Lasser on Palladium

A rather funny juxtaposition this morning - Bill Gates or someone with his signature stamp sent a spam-gram to pretty much everyone who receives any sort of Microsoft email: Bill only mentions Digital Rights Management in one throw-away sentence. And like most other spam, he promises it's a one-time mailing. On the other hand, Jon Lasser of Think Unix fame takes a harsher look at Microsoft's vision of a world where your computer is trusted against you.

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I smell a TROLL

[LNXd00d]

D00D, you're post is so full of shit I dont even know where to start.

If Palladium succeeds, and Linux doesn't follow, then Linux machines will be the only computers that can get viruses. How ironic would that be?

Um, Linux has never had a virus. EVER. NEVER!!! Palladium is not going to make a million virii suddenly pop out of nowhere for Linux and start infecting machines. Linux has a little thing called USER SECURITY that pretects users from loosing data to virii like that.

* End the untrusted binary problem. Viruses will be blacklisted by a remote server - no more email viruses, ever
* End the trojan horse/worm problem

If Micro$uck didn't make Outlook suck so dam much, we wouldn't have to worry about trusted binarys to begin with!!

Big companies like IBM (and especially the government) may use it for document control, but that's about it.

ANY amount of control over my computer is a voilation of my RIGHTS. It doesnt matter if its the computer at my house or my workstation at work. My IT department has NO BUSINNESS telling me what I can and can't run on my workstation. It's MINE.

Your such a troll you make me want to kick Bill Gates in the ass for paying you to post that comment. Linux rules. There's just nothing better, and Micro$oft knows this. The only way they can stop linux is by taking total control of computers, and this is exactly what their doing. I'm not going to stand idly by while they take my rights away from me.

Re:Palladium is E-V-I-L

[Lord High Troll]

You, sir, are so full of shit I could smell your post from the main page. Get a life and quit defending MS, unless you are paid to do so, in which case I suggest you get your facts straight.