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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
Lots of people work to make their dreams a reality. Some of them succeed.

>>Anthon+qI
You mean like making the Year of Linux Desktop a reality, by shipping Linux VMs running on mainstream OSes?

>>pjmlp+0J
Year of Linux Desktop is here, if you want to use it. Just choose hardware with it preinstalled.

>>fsflov+u71
The success of macOS and WSL, kind of prove the point that isn't what most people care about.