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MaggieL · 02-26-2003, 09:55 PM

The whole reason for Xbox has little to do with game console or set-top boxes of any kind.

Xbox is a stalking horse for Palladium. If MSFT can develop the technical and legal mechanisms to keep the PC-archetecture Xbox locked down, they will apply it directly to the next Windows hardware reference platform . You know, the "trusted" one.

So MSFT will simply throw money at this project until it accomplishes what they want: millions of free manhours of attempted penetration testing by devoted hardware hackers.

02-26-2003, 09:55 PM	#17
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	The whole reason for Xbox has little to do with game console or set-top boxes of any kind. Xbox is a stalking horse for Palladium. If MSFT can develop the technical and legal mechanisms to keep the PC-archetecture Xbox locked down, they will apply it directly to the next Windows hardware reference platform . You know, the "trusted" one. So MSFT will simply throw money at this project until it accomplishes what they want: millions of free manhours of attempted penetration testing by devoted hardware hackers. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."