Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 07:17 UTC
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. will announce tomorrow world's first consumer priced ATX form-factor PowerPC motherboard with full Linux support. Terra Soft, also creators of Yellow Dog Linux, will be selling both the PPC motherboard and a fully equipped computer that will be capable of running YDL 2.3. This will give a new face to the consumer Linux landscape, as Linux effectivelly gets its own platform rather than getting installed side by side with other OSes. Check inside for two pages with pictures of the hardware, information and an interview with TerraSoft's co-founder, Kai Staats.
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If that Palladium/DRM crap becomes a reality ( which it sounds like it will if MS has a say about it ) and every PC hardware vendor bends over backwards to please MS, RIAA, and the MPAA then I see a very big market here !
Of course, most people wouldn't care. And probably wouldn't know about it if Microsoft doesn't advertise it. And would think it as the greatest innovation in history if Microsoft advertise it.
This places sole and complete control of what code your computer can run in the hands of intel/microsoft.
No, not actually. Unless you are using Paladium-only apps, you can easily switch off Palladium, just like you are able to switch off TCPA in current IBM PCs.
How many viruses do you see for *nix systems?
Contrary to popular belief, Palladium isn't made to deter viruses, nor would it deter viruses. Viruses normally manipulate someone ignorance or a security hole. The latter for sure would be present, no doubt about that. Fact: Humans can never build a full-proof system, there is always a defect we didn't know.
Besides, how much market share does UNIX have on the desktop? On the enterprise, what is the biggest player, and how much market share? Is each UNIX version different? Yeap. That in all becomes a good reason why UNIX isn't a huge target for viruses. Another would be the fact that nobody in their right minds using Linux or FreeBSD or AIX would open "britney_spears_nude.jpg.bin".
You are trusting your computer to a company with a huge record for security holes in its products.
However, most of these security holes came from design mistakes made when that company couldn't care less about security. Now, the company is really trying hard to change its ways.
Advertising slogan? Rip.Mix.Burn. Not on your pc you won't be able to. Simple enough for you?
Actually, most legal online music venues allow a certain number of times you can burn on a CD. Plus, ripping from a CD is possible with Palladium, and burning it is easy too. What's stopping it is copyright protection that doesn't use Palladium (there isn't any plans to make a copyright protection that requires Palladium, think of all the Red Book players that can't play it?).
Copy protection is one thing, infringing on people's rights is another and quite frankly Palladium is way over the line already.
Copyright protection, in its current form, is already way over the line on consumer rights. Palladium just makes is potentially better.
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Don Cox: That is, if Apple have any right to limit what hardware you run their
programs on. I doubt if that EULA would stand up in court.
There's a high chance it would, actually.