Free Software Magazine lays into trusted computing, Microsoft, and just about everything else

Posted by Ken Y-N on March 10th, 2010 at 04:09pm

As well as mixing up Trusted Computing and Trustworthy Computing, the article by Gary Richmond had this bit of badly-written hyperbole that gave me a laugh:

Barely a day goes by when you switch on your computer, plug into the web and come across yet another deranged scheme to restrict freedom in the name of security, safety or morality. RIAA, DMCA, RIPA, Pallidium computing, the list almost seems to grow exponentially. So, some guys got together in a dark room, brainstormed and came up with yet another ruse to curtail access to and use of the internet. Relax, this one won’t fly. Trust me. But the sheer audacity of it! Even the bovine docility of Windows users wouldn’t stomach this one (or would they?)—and here’s the irony. It seems to have been dreamed up by someone at Microsoft but in reality this nonsense has form. The wrap sheet’s a long one. Welcome to the world of “Microsoft’s Internet license”.

Later on in the article the United Nations also comes in for a kicking, but I was disappointed by the lack of mention of either 9-11 or the military-industrial complex.

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