http://www.trustedcomputing.org/home read the pdf’s
do not be deceived, even if the “news” is a year old, the concept of hardware based “trusted computing” is not dead in Redmond, WA.
the whole basis of “palladium” is to create and environment where M$ has approval control over third party applications developed to run in a Windows environment. So all of the open source apps for Windows would have to be compiled with the “trust codes” in the binary. Now, say you need to recompile the software for your particular hardware setup, either you would need to submit the new binary to “some agency” for new “trust” approval, or you are hosed buddy. No trust code, no run software.
Now put that into perspective of operating systems, it would be an effective swipe against the Linux/Open Source. The algorithms for the trust encryption would definitely be patented intellectual property and do you really believe “they” would release that to the open source community? Fat chance of that.
Couching these kind of suspect actions against a backdrop of making computing “safer” for the average userand eliminating piracy are just clouding the real issue. I mean my biggest question to that is this, if piracy is hurting M$ revenues so much, how are they still making billions of dollars a year?
Yes, this is a long rant, but this isn’t an April Fool’s thing though.
