Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:30:20PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: AS> [Things written in flash are usually devoid of content. I generally agree with your sentiment against all these proprietary media formats, but I'd also like to point out that, while we have Ogg Vorbis (and now Tarkin), we don't

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:29:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > * enough content providers to think the mechanism is effective, > to make it so that if you don't have it you miss out on lots of > cool stuff. Try spending a couple of weeks without, say, mp3s, > flash,

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:35:17AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > Luckily, if this happens to x86 some day, everyone in 'Free' communities > will have a damn good reason to leave this platform in droves. :) From what I've read, this won't actually work: TCPA enabled systems will still run obsoleted op

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Scott Dier
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021103 23:38]: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:19:44PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completely all wrong. Recently a talk > > was given at MIT by one of the designers of Microsoft Palladium (their > > trusted computing in

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:19:44PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completely all wrong. Recently a talk > was given at MIT by one of the designers of Microsoft Palladium (their > trusted computing initiative) at MIT. I was at the talk, which received > lots of

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
[ I've pruned the giant list of innappropriate and off-topic CCs ] On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Hauke Goos-Habermann wrote: > Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This > technology is called TCPA. FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completely all wrong. R

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-02 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Hauke Goos-Habermann wrote: > Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This > technology is called TCPA. > What's TCPA in general you can read at the anti-tcpa site: > http://antitcpa.alsherok.net/ Please note that TCPA is vaporw

Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-02 Thread Hauke Goos-Habermann
Hi, Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This technology is called TCPA. What's TCPA in general you can read at the anti-tcpa site: http://antitcpa.alsherok.net/ All OpenSource developers should think the same way: If TCPA becomes reality GPL is dead. Now we have t