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.

Comments

Yeah and...

[Anonymous Coward]

How is this news? Everybody already knew what Bill would
say and what every other tech in the world would say.
Meh. Next story. Something with kittens maybe please?

~The Sexy Mac

Re:Palladium is E-V-I-L

[the_marco_polo]

Now we're hearing all this nonsense of how Palladium will ruin free speech, stop open source software, enable Microsoft or the government to spy on us, etc, etc,... does this remind anyone else of what people thought .Net was supposed to do?

.Net was made out to be this huge Microsoft joke that threatened the whole communication scheme of the internet! Really, now, we are seeing a open source .net being developed, and Passport? Hey, there's a open source/open standards version of that (Liberty Alliance) now as well.

If Palladium is such a big deal to the safety and choice of every computer user, why doesn't the open source software community come up with an alternative, or come up with open standards???