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

[Vik Olliver]

It will, as I understand it, allow Microsoft to prevent applications
they don't like being installed on Windows. Firefox, for instance, and
OpenOffice.

Vik :v)

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:27 +1300, Matthew Poole wrote:
> "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.