Re: Microsoft, TCPA, your wallet and the real ending of the story.

2003-06-14 Thread Sunder
Right now, Intel, AMD, Transmeta, IBM+Motorola (PowerPC), Sun+Fuji+Tatung (UltraSPARC + clones), whomever is left making MIPS Rx000 chip based machines after SGI (Is sgi still making Irix boxes?) and so on. If you want TCPA, by all means, go have fun buying a motherboard with it and run whatever O

Re: Microsoft, TCPA, your wallet and the real ending of the story.

2003-06-14 Thread Adam Shostack
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:17:22PM -0400, Sunder wrote: | Indeed. | | If it's coming from Redmond, and as usual if it smells of evil, there is | an utterly simple solution in dealing with it: don't buy it. Don't buy | Microsoft software, don't buy motherboards that include TCPA capabilities.

Microsoft, TCPA, your wallet and the real ending of the story.

2003-06-14 Thread Sunder
Indeed. If it's coming from Redmond, and as usual if it smells of evil, there is an utterly simple solution in dealing with it: don't buy it. Don't buy Microsoft software, don't buy motherboards that include TCPA capabilities. When you're up for getting yourself a new PC, get a generic one w