On Dec 11, 2007 11:19 AM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i hope we have a spokesperson from western digital at the feb 2008 > version of freed.in for a debate on this. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7136069.stm
What a completely brain-dead idea. What jumps out at me most from that article is the line "The ban operates regardless of whether the files are copy-protected, or a user's own home-produced content". What rubbish! Why would anybody in their right minds buy such a thing? How is their "networked drive" better than any other NAS solution? Relevant comment thread from slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=382097&cid=21605217 So someone is already going to use the box as a subversion server running Linux :D ~ViM -- Vipul Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
