> Yeah, but that's probably not going to happen. There's no incentive
> for that to happen.
We, as consumers and voters (or not), provide the incentive for that
to happen. And I notice that people who say, "Aww, that would be nice
but it's never going to happen," are the ones that don't do a damn
thing to *make* it happen.
> Which leaves it all back at square one. Taking the
> purist's high road seems to leave Linux out of the popular multimedia
> loop. It seems like you either make an allowance for DRM, or you
> really don't compete with MS. Or I'm not seeing it and someone needs
> to show me how we can circumvent this legitimately AND draw the
> interest of the major production companies in music and movies.
It all comes down to your interpretation of "legitimate." I view
using technology to take back the rights these companies are trying to
take from us as legitimate.
> I
> don't think the production companies take Linux seriously as a channel
> for their product. I talked to the CTO of Starz the other day and he
> didn't seem to be all that concerned about Linux's lack of DRM
> support. They'd like to offer their product on Linux, but they're only
> going to support Windows because the movie houses say no to Linux.
> They don't have to say yes to Linux because it's such a tiny piece of
> the picture. And how will it get bigger if we don't have airtight DRM?
> That's the catch-22. It could be that we all agree with Richard
> Stallman and that our moral concerns take priority over world
> dominance, which is fine, but is that really the case?
Obviously I don't speak for anyone but myself, but I don't really care
about market dominance. I care that I can have a powerful system that
doesn't try to take control of my computer out of my hands. Which is
exactly what DRM attempts to do. So what if we don't have another
piece of proprietary (Starz) software? If you want proprietary
software, run a proprietary system. When did the point of GNU/Linux
become "Get as many proprietary apps as possible and become a clone of
every other system" ?
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