Hi Rob, In article <3E1890FE.6060009@yahoo.co.uk>, Rra42 wrote:
I was not so much thinking of the client but the server: actually getting a TCPA server to run Zope and/or Python.
Interesting - let's assume that there was the citical mass in the market to get the script engine certified, but not the scripted application (I know there is non-script - e.g. c - code in Zope). Would the script engine run uncertified code? Would I be able to run my own DOS batch files, Un*x shell scripts or equivalent? To me the impossibility of drawing a sensible line would seem to show that this scheme cannot fly in such a draconian form as some pundits fear.
The comments I've read seem to indicate that uncertified (eg open source) code won't run on a TCPA box.
OK, but unless the SOBs can really impose a scheme which effectively says "you cannot run legacy code on your non-legacy box", TCPA products are more likely to meet a niche need - the need for trusted computing in scenarios where the economics support doing such an expensive thing! Regards, PhilK Sun, 05 Jan 2003 20:24 GMT @ Vaio Email: phil@xfr.co.uk / Voicemail & Facsimile: 07092 070518 Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. - Chinese saying