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                 And how about an end-run around Open Source?

> Create a new PC hardware architecture using a modified **Transmeta Crusoe
> CPU** [1] at it's heart. The CPU is modified to contain an
> encryption/decryption engine and the **code morphing** [2] software is
> updated to include the decryption of encrypted executable code. Code
> morphing is a general conversion process and there's nothing that says that
> the binary source has itself got to be executable on some existing CPU. As
> the results of code morphing appear only within an internal instruction
> cache it's very difficult to gain access to the unencrypted executable
> program code.
>

“Geoff Lane, [3]” at osOpinion [4]

I get this dread feeling that the Crusoe CPU (Central Processing Unit) from
Transmeta is going to be used as an end-run around Open Source software. Just
when you thought we were getting away from proprietary systems …

[1] http://www.transmeta.com/
[2] http://www.transmeta.com/crusoe/technology.html
[3] http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/GeoffLane/GeoffLane1.html
[4] http://www.osopinion.com/

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