InternetNews.com: Is Microsoft's Palladium a Trojan Horse?

"But by integrating Palladium with its Windows operating system (OS), Microsoft is taking another strike at Linux users. [Palladium project manager Mario] Juarez won't rule out Palladium ever being available for alternative operating systems, but it won't be initially.

"'It's a technology that has a number of different fronts,' says Levy, the computer-security expert. 'One of which is the push for more secure OS, and the DRM component, and if they can use it to stall the advancement of open source, all the better...'"

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