GPL 3: Take The Wind Out Of Palladium's Sails

• Make M$ Wintel immensely rich
  Everything will have to be certified for big money, so only the big companies can survive.  Since only Palladium is presented as being secure everybody will want to spend a lot for it.

  We can get them by holding up GPLed software like GNU/Linux. The market for free software is big enough to dare go without Palladium.

• Strangle PC users
  You won't be able to change anything on your system without permission from M$ or one of its partners.  If enough people fall for that ploy, even GNU/Linux systems will have to be certified for a fortune.

  This will break the GPL 2, because the source becomes useless.  So why not create a GPL 3 which will prohibit the software -- in source or compiled -- to be linked to a Palladium-style restrictive certificate.  The clause might insist on the freedom to not only get the source, but to explicitly be able to compile it (modified or not) and run the result freely.  "Freely" must mean without impeding anything else that is running on your machine more than what the original product had done.  This will also prohibit the big shots from cashing in on a certified GNU/Linux they can lock you up in.  United Linux is a different matter, because they're only locking you up support-wise, while their results are freely usable.

• Strangle Servers
  If you want to do business with a Palladium user, you'd better be certified yourself, or M$ will present him with ugly popups about you.

  Again GPL 3 would prevent free servers from being Palladium certified, so the net would be full of them.  This means the annoying popups would backfire, driving end users to GNU/Linux.  The whole idea is to prevent Palladium from reaching critical mass.

Other Tacks to Take

• Government Backdoors
  As this certificate stuff could prevent anybody from reading your documents, Government spy agencies would be equally locked out. As they are not protesting, there must be backdoors.

  We must find a sponsor to fund a crack competition to open these back doors wide.

• Open Fritz
  The business of Fritz (the chip or part of a bigger chip doing the dirty work) is to lock things up.

  An Open Fritz, indistinguishable from the original, should be created, undermining Palladium.  The system would think all is secured, when in fact all is open.