[nzlug] Where to start... where to start...

[Matthew Poole]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Nick Taylor wrote:

> there's this whole "Palladium" situation that seems to be circling and 
>
"Palladium" (AKA Trusted Processing Module) is an industry standard and MS 
is only one of the voices on the committee. I attended an interesting talk 
by a chap from University College, London, last year, about TPM. He's an 
advisor, and said that despite all the conspiracy theories about MS using 
it to lock out OSS it's actually impossible for any company to do that 
because the standard is open. Plus the likes of IBM are also on the TPM 
committee, so best of luck to MS trying to push anything through that 
would lock OSS out of the x86 (or any other) platform.

So whilst it's indeed valid to criticise MS for Office XML, monopolistic 
practises, and a bunch of other things, TPM is not one of their evil plots 
to bring about the end of the world as we know it.

-- 
Matthew Poole
"Don't use force.  Get a bigger hammer."