[geeks] Palladium

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

This, I'm sure, is nothing more than MS's attempt at cementing their
userbase in place. Its all horseshit and I'm tired of it all.

>From what I can see, MS has a huge problem. One reason people flocked to
them is that they "weren't IBM" and "weren't UNIX" and was cheaper than both
of them. Now, they are more expensive than either of them, and a holy
shitload more expensive than Linux (which has a pretty interface too). They
have to build walls of FUD and features to keep people away from the
alternatives. Windblows makes a fine user O/S (at least as of late).
Enterprises should leave the heavy lifting to everyone else.

This is all part of the stampeede that made it illegal to sell a PC without
an operating system, allowed MS to say that the PC your company bought with
Windows installed needs a new full price license cause the one you bought is
a "personal use" license and all the other licensing shit the've done. Some
day companies will wake up and realize that MS is damned expensive.

Of course, the truly funny thing here is that it was MS that made security
the enterprise problem that it is today. Fscking suits are too stupid to
realize this, and as MS pushes the blame away from themselves the more MS
will look like the hero. Maybe MS isn't a good software company, but they
are a GREAT marketing company.


~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
~ Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:56 AM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [geeks] Palladium
~ 
~ 
~ Microsoft wants the hardware to be redesigned to guaranty OS
~ security.  I wonder how they think they are really going to pull that
~ off?  Not the getting the hardware to cooperate, but being really
~ secure, in this age when it is relatively easy to do bus taps (see the
~ article on breaking the XBox security) and disect chips (and hey, we
~ happen to know someone with a SEM that would probably be just perfect
~ for the job) to get the authentication codes that were hardwired into
~ the machine?
~ 
~ Whenever things like this come up, I wish that those PPC board derived
~ from the IBM design would fall in price a lot so that the populace
~ would have someplace safe to go.  So far the cheapest board I've seen
~ was still more than the cost of an octane.
~ 
~ -- 
~ Joshua D. Boyd
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