Re: [ilugd] Steve jobs on abolishing DRM
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huge snip Thank God, there are people on the list not obsessed with M$ alone. At last there are several things to discuss apart from M$ involvement with LA. Well here is an interesting development in this issue http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/8743.html All of us would agree on the point that DRM was used by Steve Jobs to gain edge over competitors and he failed to do so. But if DRM goes away it is for the good for technology consumers as a whole. Also, we need to ensure that if DRM goes, we dont see something more draconian in its place. We do not want POTA to replace TADA :-) regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a solution in search of a problem. http://creative.linux-delhi.org Disclaimer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Steve jobs on abolishing DRM
Hi! all, Steve jobs suggests abolishing DRM in a recently published article at apple's website more at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a solution in search of a problem. http://creative.linux-delhi.org Disclaimer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Steve jobs on abolishing DRM
Steve jobs suggests abolishing DRM in a recently published article at apple's website more at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ Bwaaahaahaa! x 100 When iTunes was the only DRM around, Jobs was pushing it down everyone's throat, to the extent that he threatened to sue PlayFair (a FairPlay cracking technology) which was hosted at Sarovar. Now that MS seems to be well on the way to cornering the online media market and turning Apple into an also-ran, and a sorry one at that, suddenly Jobs sees the light and talks about abolishing DRM? Talk about hypocrisy! bang on raj! steve's hardware is also tightly proprietory. his inclinations towards everything 'proprietory' start from the days he legally threatened anyone from even unscrewing the mac casing open, circa 1984. all the hardware specs, firmware, etc are still locked up. iTunes, iPod, and even his music file formats are hallmark examples of DRM. his wonderful software for video compositing, 'shake' was actually an initial, promising GPL software. google, and you can't find much traces of the initial work either to his credit he's offered openEXR fileformat to the world, and some of his stuff on Darwin and the apple open licenses got endorsed eventually by the FSF. but he needs to make friends with the EFF more than the FSF, since at this moment, his business models are around what they disgustingly call 'content', and that too other people's 'content'. niyam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
