Re: Bad ideas from Microsoft et al

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Christian Szegedy wrote:

> ...
> The biggest problem with Palladium(=NGSCB) is
> that it will only allow "trusted" applications
> to use some functionality of the box, where "trusted" means that the
> binary(!) will run
> only if it is signed by a certification authority (most probably M$)
> for a good amount
> of money. This could end the era of freewares and open source
> softwares...:(
>
> Best Regards, Christian

If it is OS specific... well, perhaps ... this is complicated. If
con-games should be legal, then this should be legal, but I have grave
doubts about fraud and other deceptive practices being legitimate in a
libertarian context, though I also have a lot of trouble with any way I
can think to prevent them... except prohibiting monopolies. And that's
not going to happen.

-- 
-- Charles Hixson
Gnu software that is free,
The best is yet to be.

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