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Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Chown)
Tue Sep 17 10:33:03 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:16:15 +0100
From: Pete Chown <Pete.Chown@skygate.co.uk>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
AARG!Anonymous wrote:
> In addition, I have argued that trusted computing in general will work
> very well with open source software. It may even be possible to allow
> the user to build the executable himself using a standard compilation
> environment.
This says it all. "It may even be possible for you to keep a small
subset of the freedoms you enjoy today."
Have you seen Richard Stallman's introduction to free software? I'd be
interested to know what you think of each of the "freedoms" and whether
you think they are available under Palladium/TCPA:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
(Some of the freedoms are unaffected, of course.)
--
Pete
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