Replies to post #96888 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[greg s]

"Opt in" doesn't seem important to Apple at all. If they intend to use the TPM to curtail bootlegging of their Intel platform OS, I very seriously doubt it will be "opt in". Else all the bootleggers would stay "opted out" and pirate to their hearts content, no.

Think about it.

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24601, I think my statements were clear,


*IF* AAPL plans to use a TPM to prevent bootlegging of their OS X product

*AND**IF* the TPM is the basis for their willingness to deploy OS X to INTC platforms

*THEN* TPM activation will be compulsory for those platforms.

If a user chooses not to enable a TPM where the OS *REQUIRES* the TPM, one has themselves only the cutest of paperweights.

Sure, nobody is holding a gun to anybody's head telling they have to buy a INTC/AAPL OS X machine ... but if they do, according to the statements in Orda's content to which I responded, I cannot imagine a circumstance where the TPM is a "choice".

I said nothing of ubiquity. I believe that the AAPL/INTC deployment of TPMs may well end up being extra-TCG. But then I said that the first time around. TCG will either have to accomadate forced-on scenarios, or signifcant TPM deployemnt may well occur OUTSIDE of the TCG spec.

Something about your content gives me the impression you didn't read the underlying content to which I am responding.