Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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The trusted computing initiative (TCPA) takes a lot of these "de facto" freedoms (the vendors can't take away software I've already got on my system or completely cut me off from my data or monitor what other software I'm using) and makes it possible for the vendors to enforce their restrictions using the computer architecture:
http://www.bitsplitter.net/blog/index.php?p=240