Microsoft: "Palladium is not designed to provide defenses against hardware-based attacks that originate from someone in control of the local machine." I guess that takes care of that. [Hack the Planet]

Palladium modchips for everone!  Yaaaaay!

11:49:45 PM   

A Letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell: Support "Fail Fast". [Hack the Planet]

Oh, this is awesome.  A must read.  A request that the FCC get out of the way and let telcos fail as quickly as possible.  The telecom industry's not in trouble because of cyclical market variations -- they're in trouble because the "telephone network's technological base, and the business model under which this old technology thrived, are obsolete. Recovery is not an option."

This time, it's Darwinian -- don't prop up the telco dinosaurs.

11:47:33 PM   

Don Park: "Every time a new OSAF product ships, a market segment will dies." People have been dismissing Don's arguments, but he makes a valid point. [Scripting News]

An interesting thought, and worth further consideration.  For what it's worth, I don't think it'll shake out that way.  I'm sure, however, that open source will kill off poorly written commercial apps -- not entire markets, just the worst products in each market open source apps enter.  And that's a great thing.

Open Source apps put price pressure on the markets they enter.  They take market share away from companies that aren't innovating, that aren't investing resources in improving their product.

11:24:03 PM