Mac OS/Mac Hardware and TCPA

[Jason Clinton]

Duane Attaway wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Aldis A. Tuck wrote:
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>>I was just curious, doesn't Mac basically build their
>>own hardware/software.  I beleive They use some sort
>>of Motarolla CPU?  How will the TCPA effect them since
>>they've always been set apart from Microsoft and
>>Intel?
>>What other entities have their own setups seperate
>>from Microsoft and how will the TCPA effect them.
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>The TCPA is such a silly concept, it would be a comedy to see it become
>reality.
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>Consider the wide variety of PDA's, industrial computers, embedded
>computers, and other strange configurations of "personal computers."
>There is so much diversity in the microprocessor and peripheral market,
>such a law would be impossible to impliment.
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>Its technically unfeasable to enforce digital rights management on such
>devices as a FGPA, DSP, PIC, or other programmable processing devices.
>It would be like making a law that we could not talk to each other without
>government approval as we might be spreading terrorist information.
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>To actually pull this off would be silly.  It would be an engineering
>nightmare and close the market to those who have the patentable technology
>to pull this off.  Read this as the companies who own the patents will be
>the ones making ALL of your electronic devices.  Yes, those chips inside
>the microwave oven can be reprogrammed to make your basic computer...
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Step 1: Sell Paladium PCs to 95% of the market.
Step 2: After a few years, turn the Palladium chip on world wide,
simultaneously.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit!