The End Is Near or How Microsoft Will Own the Net
Robert X. Cringely writes about Microsoft’s Palladium project, which is an attempt to replace TCP/IP (for non-techies, that’s the protocol that makes the Internet work) with Microsoft’s propreitary protocol. Cringely calls it TCP/MS.
The point of all this is simple. It may actually make the Internet somewhat safer. But the real purpose of this stuff, I fear, is to take technology owned by nobody (TCP/IP) and replace it with technology owned by Redmond. That’s taking the Internet and turning it into MSN. Oh, and we’ll all have to buy new computers.
This is diabolical. If Microsoft is successful, Palladium will give Bill Gates a piece of every transaction of any type while at the same time marginalizing the work of any competitor who doesn’t choose to be Palladium-compliant. So much for Linux and Open Source, but it goes even further than that. So much for Apple and the Macintosh. It’s a militarized network architecture only Dick Cheney could love.
- 2 Jul 02
- activism, microsoft, robert x. cringely, web
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