As someone who makes a living from coding zope/python, I don't think it is wrong for me to solicit the views of the zope community on how something like TCPA will impact zope. Following your comment:
But as I said before, the TCPA sais that this description of how it's supposed to work is incorrect.
I have tried to find resources on the web to show how TCPA and open source tools like zope/python will co-exist. The best I could find was from www.trustedpc.org (item 24 in the TPM FAQ pdf document) which didn't give much detail. If you have a web reference you could share that counters the alarming descriptions of the likely effect of TCPA/Palladium on open source tools such as Zope/Python I and I am sure others would take great comfort from it as Zope/Python are terrific tools and we would like to be able to speak to clients with confidence about the future of these great products. Best wishes, Rob Lennart Regebro wrote:
From: "rra42" <rra42@yahoo.co.uk>
So it is not immediately clear that we will be able to legally allowed to buy non-fritzed hardware
Yes, it is immediately clear that this will be legal. What won't be legal, and already is not legal, is to BREAK or circumvent the copyright protection. In other words, it is illegal to run Microsoft Word or other software without a license, and it is also illegal to break any copyright protection that Microsoft imposes on it, including TCPA.
It is NOT illegal to run Open Office instead.
and even then, will Intel consider that they want to manufacture non-fritzed chips?
Well, so buy from another manufacturer, then...
But as I said before, the TCPA sais that this description of how it's supposed to work is incorrect. It's a technology that allows you to control the software licensing, not a technology to prevent you from running open-source software. This also makes sense, while the fascist control of computers doesn't.
As far as I'm conserned, that's it when it comes to this topic. TCPA will not stop Zope from working. If you want to discuss TCPA some more, I'm sure there are mailing lists on this topic availiable.
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