> -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mark Browne > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:44 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Secure Computing - The end of Linux? <snip> > Franklin's dire warnings are soon going to be tested under <snip> These quotes of Franklin are favorites of mine, but I hardly think they are dire warnings, and they have been tested before in this country. > converge into Big Brother a la George Orwell's 1984, which > was just twenty years ahead of its time. <snip> Now, perhaps I'm picking nits, but Orwell's 1984 was published in 1949, so 54 years ahead of it's time, by the original email author's logic. To be a little more on topic, I guess I don't totally see how secure computing will endanger Linux. At the very least, I see SCO's FUD doing much greater harm in the long run than an extra chip on a motherboard. Perhaps I don't know enough though... /me goes to read up on secure computing _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list