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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org