me thinking Linux big time after seeing this; I knew it was coming but not this soon.

On slashdot:

1010011010 writes "According to Microsoft Watch, Microsoft will be demonstrating Palladium (also known as 'Next-Generation Secure Computing Base') at WinHEC in May in New Orleans. The 'trusted root' is now called the 'Nexus' by Microsoft. Developers wishing to write 'Nexus-aware' applications will apparently have to pay a licensing fee to do so. The product manager for Palladium, Mario Juarez, says, 'It's important to note that nexus-aware applications will not hinder any apps or anything else running in the regular Windows environment.' I'm sure you can all hear the word 'yet' at the end of that sentence. There's talk of phasing in Palladium, starting with Longhorn Server in 2005. I wonder how Microsoft will convince consumers that loss of control is a good thing, and how long the convincing will take. I, for one, am already planning to transition my company away from Microsoft software. Hopefully that won't get messed up by and dumb mandatory-palladium legislation from the Fritz types."

For those new to Palladium, it also effects being able to play any video or MP3 that's not licenced.

Heh the irony of the product manager's surname :D

Hehehe

'trusted root'

hehehehe :) I reckon they should keep that name for Australia release, I think they might even be able to fool a few n00bs here :)

one of the /. responses

Re:How to convince people loss of control is good

Shopkeeper: Take this computer, but beware: Windows carries a terrible curse.
Customer: Ooooh, that's bad.

Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free Media Player!

Customer: That's good!

Shopkeeper: The Media Player is also cursed.

Customer: That's bad.

Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of a free downloadable movie!

Customer: That's good!

Shopkeeper: The movies contain Digital Rights Management technology.

Customer: [stares]

Shopkeeper: That's bad.

Customer: Can I go now?

haha class

ROFL... ha ha good one

thing is, palladium (I thought it was palladin?) isn't software only, no no it's hardware too once it gets going full steam ahead, so not only will MS be using it, but if it want's to run on the latest hardware and remain legal, linux will to from what I can figure. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but palladium hardware won't allow non-palladium software to run at all. e.g. no linux

What will really s*** me is if they make it illegal to own a non-palladium based computer. MS could charge the earth for software, hardware companies could charge the earth and people would simply have to pay if they wanted to stay in the game. To me this seems like nothing more than a money making scheme than an anti-piracy thing. If this all goes ahead my view is still the same as it was when I first heard about this. I will give up computers all together & go get a life :)

I will give up computers all together & go get a life :)

so will most QGL'ers :)

palladium will be microsoft's death.

the fact that you have to pay a licence fee if you want to do some dev for them sucks ass.

everything you do on your computer will be monitored by a ms server somewhere. that doesn't exactly win a lot of friends given microsoft's track record on reliable server products.

here are 2 good rants about the whole thing:
http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

and this one sums up the whole story:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/IhateMS.html

Mario Juarez

JUARREEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ MONKEY!$!^%&*$#

they've stopped production of Windows 98 this year.

Sorry to divert the topic...

but what's the story with AusLinux these days?

well i stopped working on auslinux when i had to sell my linux box for new headfones :P

ill get a new box set up hopefully this holidays, then i can get the site going again. :)

Is this for real?

Mario Juarez, says,

just seems with a name like that in the article its a joke :)