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[FYI] Reg readers on keeping the open PC alive
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- Subject: [FYI] Reg readers on keeping the open PC alive
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:33:00 +0100
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Reg readers on keeping the open PC alive
By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 20/03/2001 at 13:36 GMT
Hale Landis' posting predicting the end of the PC as an open hardware
platform has drawn some strong reactions from Register readers. Many
of you are alarmed, and many more optimistic. Several of you
interpreted it as an extension of Intel's control over the PC
standard: but we don't think that's what Landis meant. Quite the
opposite, in fact. Let's get to that in a moment.
Crypto expert Bruce Schneier agrees with Landis. Schneier has been
writing about closed or controlled systems - what he calls "trusted
clients" - for some time. These are computers trusted by the data
owner, not the user of course, and implicit is that the data owner
isn't you.
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