Microsoft tørker støvet av Palladium

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Microsoft tørker støvet av Palladium

Palladium ble for et par år siden brukt som et kodenavn for sikkerhetssystemet som var for Windows Longhorn som skal lanseres neste år. Systemet har vært veldig omdiskutert, men Microsoft har ikke gitt opp.

 

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[efikkan]

Hva går Palladium ut på?

[Gronz]

Hva går Palladium ut på?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

 

18. Ugh. What else?

 

TC will undermine the General Public License (GPL), under which many free and open source software products are distributed. The GPL is designed to prevent the fruits of communal voluntary labour being hijacked by private companies for profit. Anyone can use and modify software distributed under this licence, but if you distribute a modified copy, you must make it available to the world, together with the source code so that other people can make subsequent modifications of their own.

 

IBM and HP have apparently started work on a TC-enhanced version of GNU/linux. This will involve tidying up the code and removing a number of features. To get an evaluation certificate acceptable to TCG, the sponsor will then have to submit the pruned code to an evaluation lab, together with a mass of documentation showing why various known attacks on the code don't work. (The evaluation is at level EAL3 - expensive enough to keep out the free software community, yet lax enough for most commercial software vendors to have a chance to get their lousy code through.) Although the modified program will be covered by the GPL, and the source code will be free to everyone, it will not work in the TC ecosystem unless you have a certificate for it that is specific to the Fritz chip on your own machine. That is what will cost you money (if not at first, then eventually).

 

You will still be free to make modifications to the modified code, but you won't be able to get a certificate that gets you into the shiny new TC world. Something similar happens with the linux supplied by Sony for the Playstation 2; the console's copy protection mechanisms prevent you from running an altered binary, and from using a number of the hardware features. Even if a philanthropist does a not-for-profit secure GNU/linux, the resulting product would not really be a GPL version of a TC operating system, but a proprietary operating system that the philanthropist could give away free. (There is still the question of who would pay for the user certificates.)

 

People believed that the GPL made it impossible for a company to come along and steal code that was the result of community effort. This helped make people willing to give up their spare time to write free software for the communal benefit. But TC changes that. Once the majority of PCs on the market are TC-enabled, the GPL won't work as intended. The benefit for Microsoft is not that this will destroy free software directly. The point is this: once people realise that even GPL'led software can be hijacked for commercial purposes, idealistic young programmers will be much less motivated to write free software.

 

9. Why call the monitor chip a `Fritz' chip?

 

It was named in honour of Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who worked tirelessly in Congress to make TC a mandatory part of all consumer electronics. (Hollings' bill failed; he lost his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Trasportation, and he's retiring in 2004. But the Empire will be back. For example, Microsoft is spending a fortune in Brussels promoting a draft Directive on IP enforcement which is seriously bad stuff.)

 

 

Kjøpt og betalt av MS...

Endret 16. april 2005 av Gimper

[G]

Skal bli spennende å følge utviklingen på dette videre. Håper bare det ikke blir umulig å installere Linux på fremtidige hovedkort.

[Thombr86]

Sånn som det ser ut akkurat nå, uten at jeg har satt meg alt for mye inn i dette, så vil jeg holde meg til XP/XP-64, og evt gå over til linux. Longhorn med "Palladium" det er jeg sterkt imot, per idag. Ting kan endre seg.

 

"Betale i dyre dommer for programvare, det går ikke an det!"

Endret 17. april 2005 av BrAtTeRn