I think a lot of companies put their Windows + drivers on Blu Ray
since it would fill a DVD.

That was to prevent legal decoding sold media with your own software (Linux).



On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin
<0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2015 10:19:48 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
>
>>For a C Note (or 2) you can get a USB Blu Ray drive to reduce the
>>number of platters.
>>http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=external+blu+ray+drive+usb
>>
> Interesting.  I had thought Blu-Ray was massively encumbered in patents
> and contracts to protect the IP interests of media providers, therefore no
> Blu-Ray players were available for computers; only embedded in viewers.
>
> Or does that pertain only to entertainment content?
>
> Does IBM (or other vendors) make software available on Blu-Ray?
>
> YLSED,
> gil
>
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