Intel to cut Linux out of the content market?!

MrKnisely mrknisely at mrknisely.is-a-geek.org
Mon Aug 1 12:59:41 UTC 2005


mustafa wrote:

> Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:12:46PM +0700, Ezra Tibuludji wrote:
>>
>>> Mayday ?
>>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, another misguided attempt from the consumer electronics industry
>> to satisfy the (much smaller, sizewise) content industry. It's about as
>> intelligent as pissing against the wind.
>>
>> DRM will keep on popping up as long as the content industry think they
>> can get away with it. If only the consumer electronics companies would
>> grow a pair then we'd see the end of this farce. It doesn't help that
>> "the greatest democracy on earth", which also happens to be the most
>> influential country and hosts all the biggest content providers, has a
>> political system that allows buying legislation (this isn't as unique as
>> it should be).
>>
>> In the end, the only thing we, as consumers, can do is vote with our
>> feet and money. Don't by this encumbered waste of good computing power,
>> don't by content that limits what you can do with it.
>>
>> /M
>>
>>
> right
> look the xbox360.
> for all of its didgital media capabilites it still
> does not have have all the media features my xbox(modified)
> can do.
> MS will always try stuff like this.
> offering low quality stuff at bloted prices.
> ignore it i guess.
>
>
Right, ignore it... but, also tell your respectivve families not to buy 
it.  We have a responsibility, by being the family geeks, to educate our 
family on the sucky products of the day.

Mike K.




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