AMD Opteron will NOT support Palladium

[Cown]

Read:
The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5489)

For those of you that don't know what Palladium is; Palladium is a kind of security that prevents the computer from running unregistered versions of software, meaning ALL kinds of software.

[xMephistoNx]

Are you sure you read the article ??

"AMD's FORTHCOMING Opteron processor will support Microsoft's trusty "security" initiative, Palladium, reports reveal. "

[Cown]

Originally posted by xMephistoNx
Are you sure you read the article ??

"AMD's FORTHCOMING Opteron processor will support Microsoft's trusty "security" initiative, Palladium, reports reveal. "

They updated the article:

Updated, revised

By Paul Hales: fredag 20 september 2002, 12:19

Updated 15:03 BST Comments that looked like they were from Pat Moorhead on an Aussie Web site are not from Pat Moorhead, the firm has just told us.

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Seams I can't delete this thread :-/

[The Coolest]

Man, that is some good news, I know that not all users here are perfectly legal, but that's besides the point, not everyone will want to get a system which has a "thingie" that is implemented into the heart of the system which will not allow SOME of the contents being run. I sure wouldn't want one that might not run some stuff. AMD made the right call.

[CrashOveride]

ya that is a save for some poor people like... um people in the world who can afford every game that comes out:D :rolleyes: :confused: :D

[OC-Master]

Very good news, what we dont need is more security issues to deal with.


DS-Master

[PhobMX]

Originally posted by CrashOveride
ya that is a save for some poor people like... um people in the world who can afford every game that comes out:D :rolleyes: :confused: :D

lol amen man, but what does intel think about this???

[Oni]

Woo!! Hammer, here I come! :D

[hellrazrblade]

i have a feeling that if they tried to do something like that, there would be problems with legit software as well...

[adamtekh]

they always find a away around it anyways

[hellrazrblade]

Originally posted by adamtekh
they always find a away around it anyways

absolutely true, but i dont know if thats a reason to quit trying. there are better ways than checks in the chips, though.

[mbigna]

Just another reason to keep buying AMD.

[Benno]

heres hoping intel decide otherwise with the prescott and everyone buys amd!

[Gravity Man]

Intel may lose a few sales to AMD, but not too many, since there aren't many people who know/care about palladium.

[fender123]

Great news :D

This is surely going to be one bad ass cpu....

[PhobMX]

Originally posted by Benno
heres hoping intel decide otherwise with the prescott and everyone buys amd!

*ALARM ALARM*
(dont wanna get banned...) comment spotted...

man dont think that way... you must hope that intel wont support it either so MS gets busted LOL and also keep competing with amd so us users get the best stuff, but you are right that such a lame implementation would shoo shoo all the computer g33k community away from intel...