A friend of mine that reads what I have posted carefully asked me why they are telling to the people that the cross patent is what they are really doing.
OK, any way or another Microsoft will have to make interoperability with other softwares, but UE sues Microsoft not for Palladium , But fot the net interoperability,They are forgetting this side and for now Microsoft with Suse can cooperate in a manner SUSE with hiss stuff will embrace Windows Vista and Vista Will interoperate with Linux, But in particular manner in wich Microsoft can study the codes and SUSE can do the same thing.
It will give time to both sides.
Employees at Microsoft are prohibited to know the codes of Linux ( or at least talk about it). The way that it can be done, Microsoft is interested in Make Palladium a first alternative to secure electronic transactions, but it will bring Linux out of the way generating more litigations. What is the solution here for future litigations ?
SUSE is Linux, they can coopperate in a manner that Palladium can be implemented in Linux like another proprietary stuff the consumers have to pay. ( like some drivers and some softwares ). If the consumers do not pay, Can not access banks and softwares, media, videos, musics money transactions, etc, because they do not have the apropriate software.
Palladium will bring institutions a more secure way to comunicate through Internet, yes, it is true. Palladium is secure, very very secure, But can be adversely afected by the interests of comercials owners in a way that they can renegate you to control your own computer or your life. And can be hacked in a VM.
If Palladium can be ported to everything ( With the help of SUSE, in the Linux world ), they can sell them to customers and Windows going down will not make any difference for them, they have all the transactions in the world under control, selling what every closed source, comercial and proprietary owners want to control their business and the users.
All of them will go trough Palladium tecnology to secure their proprietary stuff, If the user change a bit in their software. Will be renegated.
5 Years is sufficient to Bring Palladium to the Linux world,
Thats why they are trying to stop you from doing secure transactions in an Vista System under VM, Cause you can understand the system and can generate an ghost machine, and then the system have holes, The major Hole is treated in the EULA.
" You can not play copy protected content under a VM " the EULA says.
Even with all of the tecnology stuff involved in Palladium I guess they discover a breach of security, and they are working harder to stop before it can be discovered.
I can imagine the breach -> Laptops with Vista under VM. Cause they can use any IP adress, causing the system to be cloned if you clone the Virtual Mac Adress and Bios and a Hash of the HDD,
They will give what EU is Wanting trhough SUSE Linux, Course first under a groupware to try to shoot and Kill Red Hat, but it will not function, and they all know it, but it will give time to them to develop Palladium for " Aproved Linux ", and if we have to pay fees, and those fees are from closed source that we can't escape, they will have to prohibit the users to understand and possibly use inverse engineering, Linux users can be SUED by Microsoft !!
The agreement does not cover Palladium. And then we will stay treatened !
We will not make any comercial transaction if we are under a Vista VM, That is the cause of the agreement too, And Xen source, VM can ghost a Palladium Machine and they know that it can be done ! They will do anything to secure Palladium in any manner !
What is being done Really -> a Way to bring palladium to Linux and a way to secure Palladium from atacks that possibly tell Vista the hardware under a VM is true Hardware.
Those are beaulty ? think again ....