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Subject: FW: [agathiyar] Microsoft's Internet Takeover Plan
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:16:49 +0100
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From: Siva Ananthan
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An opinion... about an earlier email
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From: vaheesan selvarajah [mailto:vahees@...]
Sent: 19 Jul 2002 20:55
To: Siva Ananthan
Subject: Re: [agathiyar] Microsoft's Internet Takeover Plan
this can not be true... or even if it's true the project would be a failure.
Reasons are many....
1. TCP/IP is still evolving... the new version of it is called IPv6 which is
being developed to overcome the limitation that we have with the number of
IP addresses with Tons of advancements.
2. Internet is not owned by anybody and the reason why it is getting
attacked by kiddies is because ppl like MS try to impose their proprietary
stuff. Example... the OS Linux is open source and there are less attempts to
hack Linux than MS products.
3. TCP/IP is US's major protocol used from military to space stuff and it
was invented by DOD and ppl like them.. so NO ONE will tolerate what MS does
on this regard and eventually that will be the end of MS then... this may
lead them to lose whatever that they gained in their iExplorer market share.
this is like MS digging it's own grave!
-vahees
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From: "Siva Ananthan"
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: FW: [agathiyar] Microsoft's Internet Takeover Plan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@...]
> Sent: 07 Jul 2002 11:16
> To: tamil_araichchi_vaddam@yahoogroups.com; agathiyar@yahoogroups.com;
> tamilcomputing@yahoogroups.com; tamilinix@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: erumbugal@yahoogroups.com; webmasters@...;
> akandabaratam@egroups.com
> Subject: [agathiyar] Microsoft's Internet Takeover Plan
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>
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html
>
> I Told You So
> By Robert X. Cringely
>
> Excerpt:
>
> Let's concentrate on the Microsoft story. Last August, I wrote of a rumor
> that Microsoft wanted to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol -- a
> protocol owned by Microsoft -- that it would tout as being more secure.
> Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some of the
reserved
> fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions, quite similar to Vines
> IP, if you remember that product from Banyan Systems. I called it TCP/MS
in
> the column. How do you push for the acceptance of such a protocol? First,
> make the old one unworkable by placing millions of exploitable TCP/IP
stacks
> out on the Net, ready-to-use by any teenage sociopath. When the Net slows
or
> crashes, the blame would not be assigned to Microsoft. Then ship the new
> protocol with every new copy of Windows, and install it with every Windows
> Update over the Internet. Zero to 100 million copies could happen in less
> than a year.
>
> This week, Microsoft announced Palladium through an exclusive story in
> Newsweek written by Steven Levy, who ought to have known better. Palladium
> is the code name for a Microsoft project to make all Internet
communication
> safer by essentially pasting a digital certificate on every application,
> message, byte, and machine on the Net, then encrypting the data EVEN
INSIDE
> YOUR COMPUTER PROCESSOR. Palladium compatible hardware (presumably
chipsets
> and motherboards) will come from both AMD and Intel, and the software
will,
> of course, come from Microsoft. That software is what I had dubbed 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.
>
> Ironically, Microsoft says they will reveal Palladium's source code, which
> is little more than a head feint toward the Open Source movement. Nobody
at
> Microsoft is saying anything about giving the ownership of that source
code
> away or of allowing just anyone to change it.
>
> Under Palladium as I understand it, the Internet goes from being ours to
> being theirs. The very data on your hard drive ceases to be yours because
it
> could self-destruct at any time. We'll end up paying rent to use our own
> data!
>
> Can you tell I think this is a bad idea?
>
> Bala Pillai
> "Networking Minds in Halls Without Walls Since 1995"
> Founder, The Asia Pacific Internet Company
> Sydney, Australia
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