🚀 go-pugleaf

N. Thornton wrote:
>>This is about TCPA and Palladium, trusted computing infrastructure. 
> 
> 
> If there is one thing palladium is not, its trusted. One of the first
> things any propagandist does its misuse the language. We would be more
> accurate to refer to it as an entirely unstrusted computing system.
> Just cos MS calls it trusted in no way means it is, or that we should
> call it trusted.
> 
> IMHO the more muckysoft moves away from what the buyer wants, the more
> people will turn to linux and other OSes. And the more people will
> just use old MS OSes. Even here there is still the odd highly skiled
> person posting here using Win 3.1. And loads of poeple use 98 and ME
> and dont plan to change any time soon.
> 
> MS is just getting itself more and more socially rejected, and at some
> point Linux will be user friendly enough for popular use. When that
> day comes, MS shares will be worth a fraction of what they are now.

Hopefull views.  I hope you're right.  But it doesn't look promising.

> Chris Carlen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just look at junkies.  And everyone is still using Windows.  Anyone
>>who claims to be a human being who values freedom and democracy, and who
>>does nothing to abandon Windows, is a hypocrite.
> 
> 
> I think for most of us its just a realistic choice. The net isnt too
> secure or private either, but we choose one over the other. Rightly.
> Freedom isnt the _only_ thing that matters. And using computers gives
> it far more than it takes. Thats life!

Oops.  It seems I was a bit heavy handed with that one.  I shouldn't 
respond to such issues early in the morning.

Good day!


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