I believe even current hardware (mainboard bios’s etc) has support for “palladium” or “palladium-like” functionality, but without os support, it’s not useable yet.

I can already see the day when:

“You’d like to open that company report you spent all day on yesterday? That’ll be $x.xx please. Don’t forget our “print in bulk” savings plans if you intend to print it out. If you plan to email it, please ensure you have sufficient viewing licenses for all the recipients. By the way, the license for that font you’ve used on page 4 is almost due for renewal, would you like to take care of that now as well?

Yes I do realise that document’s contents are your company’s IP, but the programs you are using to create, and view it are our IP.

Honestly those rumours about us being able to view and review everything created by our applications is ridiculous.

The constant traffic from those programs to our sites is just security updates and of course the DRM checking the validity of your licenses.

No we can’t refund the costs of that bandwidth, the EULA of all our products specifically mentions that.”

Am i being absurd and paranoid? Well they do insist you register your products online if at all possible. And now updates as well? The possibilities in the future are looking kind of bleak really.

I get the feeling these filesystems (e.g. WINfs) are obviously designed specifically with the intent of preventing open source from even reading windows installed disks. =(

Can anyone say os X.4 tiger?

I have ADC membership and i’ll tell you that the OS is sweet.. you mac users are in for a real treat =).