Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:29:05PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote:
That might be nice, but higher on some folks list is to have a legitimate DVD
player that folks on Solaris would have to be able to play actual DVD movies.
That would be cool if that could happen somehow, even at a price.
Why? By legitimate you must mean 'closed source' and since there are
largely functional open source options already it would be far cooler
to help finish one of them and offer it as part of OpenSolaris. If
functionality, usability, correctness, code quality, maintainability,
and everything else we would measure are equal, the open source
offering is better than the closed. Consistency with the DVDCCA's
misguided and authoritarian philosophy is not some important
additional feature but rather a serious design flaw.
I think by legitimate, he means a dvd player that can play encrypted
dvd's legally (which iirc requires a license for the dvd decryption
technology). Most linux distributions that ship a dvd player, do so
without encrypted dvd support (since they don't want to pay a license
fee for the decryption code). People of course are free to (and
regularly do) 'roll their own' thereby breaking the law (DMCA if memory
serves).
Providing a dvd player that 'legally' allows one to play encrypted dvd's
out of the box, would be nice.
Cheers,
--
Glenn Lagasse
KISS/Approachability
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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