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===Shutting out of competing products=== People have voiced concerns that trusted computing could be used to keep or discourage users from running software created by companies outside of a small industry group. [[Microsoft]] has received a great deal{{vague|date=March 2015}} of bad press surrounding their [[NGSCB|Palladium]] software architecture, evoking comments such as "Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium", "Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace", and "Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Felten |first1=E.W. |title=Understanding trusted computing: will its benefits outweigh its drawbacks? |journal=[[IEEE Security & Privacy]] |date=May 2003 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=60β62 |doi=10.1109/MSECP.2003.1203224}}</ref> The concerns about trusted computing being used to shut out competition exist within a broader framework of consumers being concerned about using [[Product bundling|bundling]] of products to obscure prices of products and to engage in [[anti-competitive practices]].<ref name="anderson2"/> Trusted Computing is seen as harmful or problematic to independent and [[Open-source software|open source]] software developers.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1423956 |doi=10.1109/MSP.2005.40 |s2cid=688158 |title=Does Trusted Computing Remedy Computer Security Problems? |date=2005 |last1=Oppliger |first1=R. |last2=Rytz |first2=R. |journal=IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=16β19 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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