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Re: FYI: Palladium now NGSCB
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Sulzberger)
Mon Jan 27 13:12:12 2003
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:06:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Cc: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <8894CA1F87A5D411BD24009027EE783801754F3A@md-exchange1.na.nai.com>
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 Michael_Heyman@NAI.com wrote:
> From: <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129337,00.html>
>
> Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial
> security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-
> bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing
> base".
>
> Similar from <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29039.html>
>
> -Michael Heyman
I think that if we cooperate we can stop this absurd Orwellian grab of a
perfectly generic phrase. "Palladium" is the proper name. Microsoft
should not be allowed to claim "next-generation secure computing base" as a
trademark nor as a term meaning Palladium. Not as a trademark because the
phrase is deceptive and generic and not as a term because the term is
deceptive and generic. There is no advantage to us in propagating this
crude lie.
I ask that those on this list continue to refer to Palladium by its right
name "Palladium". If we continue to use "Palladium" to mean Microsoft's
program, "Palladium" remains a useful term of art. It is precise and
accurate, whereas "next-generation secure computing base" is misleading,
vague, and inaccurate.
oo--JS.
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