Am Tue, 26. December 2006 17:11 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 04:54:34PM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday December 25 2006 5:10 am, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > > > You can't win the desktop if you don't even try. Right now, few in > > > > the Linux world are seriously trying. And time is running out. > > > > > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-2 > > > >01.h tml#id247970 > > > > > > But this is not a Linux problem, it is more a problem of the current > > > state in the software industry where everything multimedia interesting > > > requires per-copy royalties, NDAs, closed source and so on. > > > > Partially correct. Don't forget that MickySoft has and will continue to > > do ALL it can to shut Linux OUT of the desktop maket. Some have said they > > don't fear Linux, which is about as ignorant a position as one can take. > > They know full well how much money they have lost in the server market. > > They're scared spitless that the same thing will happen on the desktop, > > and they'are RIGHT, IF and ONLY IF the issues of DRM are eliminated and > > there's better hardware support. Applications will come along fine, if > > there other 2 are taken care of. > > If you think it is just Microsoft blocking Linux on the Desktop, this is > just not true. > > MP3 - Thompson / AudioMPEG group > DVD - various consortiums, starting from The MPEG Group, Dolby > and the DVD consortium itself > > WMV/WMA - well, a Microsoft problem but these could be easily replaced > even usuable for Windows users. > > DRM - not really accepted even by Windows users. Or circumvented easily. > Just walk through the city with open eye and see burned CDs played > in CD recorders... And I just doubt all the music on the MP3 players > is legally bought. > DRM in my eyes is a non-issue at this time.
Hhhm, I think you are wrong here, so at least for DRM. There was a german article on golem.de [1] which points to an interesting english article [2] about the effects which may come along with microsofts DRM implementation in Vista. [1] http://www.golem.de/0612/49655.html [2] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt regards, thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
