MS DRMOS Palladium -- The Trojan Horse OS

[Mark S. Miller]

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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