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>>neelc+(OP)
> It’s not impossible to win this fight, we won the fight against Palladium, even with a well-resourced Microsoft combined with the PC industry, if not the NSA and MPAA.

Actually it was a pyrrhic victory, as Microsoft went on to apply their ideas to XBox, Azure Sphere, and now the change is coming back as future Windows hardware requirements for secure workstations via Pluton integration.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/17/mee...

I bet mostly UNIX focused folks haven't noticed that their next PC might have a Pluton CPU on them.

https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/260917/here-come-the-first...

>>pjmlp+6t
It isn't for no reason that a lot of people are interested in RISC-V.

>>Anthon+GF
They are day dreaming if they expect the whole eletronic stack to be open, from thinking rocks all the way to the boot loader.

>>pjmlp+lH
All you have to believe is that there is a market for alternative tech stacks, and the embargo on exporting CPUs and CPU tech to China is basically guaranteeing that outcome. That’s the thing about totalitarianism, there can only be one.

>>toxik+VU
Actually an interesting point here. What will happen if USA sanctions your country? Can WEI stop working by remotely killing it?