On 9/18/2015 4:35 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: > > > Despite my effort to make a strong > and realistic business case, I was hit with the same old nonsense. > Linux users refuse to pay for software, so AutoDesk won't spend any time > developing software for Linux users even though they deliberately > selected cross platform development tools to make it easier to develop > products for Windows and Mac, and Linux wouldn't take much additional > effort. They seemed to have a religious aversion to Linux.
Years ago, I stumbled upon the online journal (this was probably 10 years before people started calling them blogs) of one of the guys who started AutoCAD. Especially interesting was a letter to the then current owners of AutoCAD telling them to not bother with yet again using a hardware copy protection dongle. He detailed how much time, effort and money he'd wasted the first time doing that - only to have a crack available at least a week before release and that version of AutoCAD panned as the worst ever. He said he should have put all that wasted effort and time into AutoCAD rather than the copy protection. Copy protection is just like a law. Them that won't obey it aren't going to, no matter what tricks you can come up with to try and stop them. The worst mass marketed copy protection is CSS (Content Scrambling System) used on DVD video. Sony, Phillips and friends massively under-estimated the potential number of companies who would be producing DVDs. They came up with only 40 different security keys for CSS. Then to be able to have the descrambling work, every DVD player and DVD-ROM drive had to have all 40 keys somewhere in them. That's like making a lock then handing *everyone* a set of the keys. Once that "secret" was discovered it was trivial for someone to find and extract the key codes from a DVD player then reverse engineer the scrambling algorithm. Since CSS was broken from the get-go, publishers have tried (and seen broken) all kinds of formatting trickery on the discs. What makes it difficult is that every DVD made must be playable on every DVD player or DVD-ROM drive ever made since the standard was established nearly 20 years ago. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
