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Re: MS DRMOS Palladium -- The Trojan Horse OS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark S. Miller)
Thu Jul 4 14:11:08 2002
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:39:57 -0700
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@rsasecurity.com>
From: "Mark S. Miller" <markm@caplet.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <3D232982.7040408@rsasecurity.com>
At 09:42 AM 7/3/2002 Wednesday, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>By patenting the DRMOS, only M$ will be allowed to create such a beast (OK,
>they could license the patent without restrictions -- pardon me while I pick
>myself up off the floor). This means that the rest of the planet's OSes
>will have nothing even approaching DRM functionality, because nobody wants
>to be sued by M$.
>
>That's good, but OTOH other OSes will not build anything approaching secure
>computing either, for the same reason.
That seems like a complete non-sequitur. Why won't others build secure
OSes? MS didn't patent security (not that I've heard anyway). For example,
how is EROS http://www.eros-os.org threatened by these MS patents?
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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