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Reg readers on keeping the open PC alive

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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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