A Lucid Explanation of Palladium

buro9 writes "Last week on the WMTalk list a heated debate raged on the rights of a consumer to rip their DVD's locally for more convenient playback later. As the debate started to border on a flameware an anonymous user managed to give the most clear description of Palladium and its implications to us as both users and developers."

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[RyoSaeba]

Pretty interesting article.
Even if the poster is obviously against MS & Palladium, (s)he does point out one of the most critical things : MS has to sign everything secured.
Now the question is: imagine (or dream ;-) MS publicily saying that they will make some association / trustee company, including people from FreeSoftware community, competitors, and so on, which would review software & sign it. Would that be acceptable ?
Though of course having a program / driver signed would prolly require money, and thus disrupt many FreeSoftware projects....
Also interesting the bit on the boss / email, good point to. Needs to be thought really clearly before implementing.

Now of course the big question is whether all those Palladium / security thingy are really required for personal computers. Of course it'd be cool to have the guarantee that the OS doesn't get destroyed by a virus thanks to the built-in safeguards, on the other hand MS's system seems to take away too much from users....