Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption (warning: long rant follows)

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 23:07, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Jeff Vian wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> The latest attempt that is presently in progress is the TCP (trusted
>> computing platform) chips they are working (with others) to get
>> installed on motherboards.  The TCP chips will be used to assist in
>> forcing DRM compliance among other things.  What I find most
>> threatening here is the restrictions on what processors can be used
>> with that chip.
>
>This I haven't heard about. It sounds similar to the proposal to
>put serial numbers into the Pentium family of chips by Intel.
>That one died on the vine.
>
>I found this: http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/
>which states (in part)
>
>[QUOTE MODE ON]
>
>We have the chip running under Linux, and have studied it extensively.
>  In order to clarify a lot of misunderstanding about the chip, we are
>making available some helpful white papers and open source device
>drivers for Linux, so that interested people can test and use the chip
>in an open environment.
>
>[QUOTE MODE OFF]
>
But will they be truely open SOURCE Mike, as in can we look at the code 
and fix it for our uses?  That may be the day pigs can use hell for a 
landing strip.

>Mike
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