more on Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tim Onosko <onosko () gmail com>
Date: August 1, 2005 11:55:27 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
Reply-To: tim () onosko com


Was there any doubt that this would be so?

First, Apple does not want to sell its OS so that it can be mounted  
on "white box" PC hardware.  Apple sells both hardware and software.   
And to keep selling hardware, it must sell computers to which OS X is  
locked by their so-called "Fritz" chip.  If the OS ever got "into the  
wild," as it were, and ran on standard PCs, it would be the end of  
Apple -- or at least the Mac -- as we know it.

Second, Apple undoubtedly does NOT want to be left out of the world  
that Intel and MSFT are envisioning, in which the trusted consumer  
platform is an absolute requirement for entertainment, e-commerce and  
the delivery of information.  Without the TC environment, the Mac OS  
would become marginalized, just as Linux now will.

Third, I am willing to bet my house that Apple will tout its new  
machines' capacity to run multiple operating systems, specifically  
Mac OS and Windows, even though competing Intel-based machines will  
not be boot both Windows AND the Mac OS.  This is a clear advantage  
that the hardware-based TC environment offers Apple.  And it alone  
will have this advantage.




On 8/1/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: August 1, 2005 9:42:42 AM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipient:;
Subject: Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?



Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
Cory Doctorow
July 31, 2005

People working with early versions of the forthcoming Intel-based
MacOS X operating system have discovered that Apple's new kernel
makes use of Intel's Trusted Computing hardware. If this "feature"
appears in a commercial, shipping version of Apple's OS, they'll lose
me as a customer -- I've used Apple computers since 1979 and have a
Mac tattooed on my right bicep, but this is a deal-breaker.

...

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/31/apple_to_add_trusted.html



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