Bad UI of the Week: The Cross-Platform User Interface
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| There are two kinds of snake oil in the software world that still seem to
| sell well. The first is DRM, where purveyors seem able to convince their
| customers that they can provide something that has been shown to be
| impossible. The other is that cross-platform graphical user interface. In
| this week's column, David Chisnall examines the myth of the cross-platform
| GUI, and explains why such attempts are likely to be doomed to failure from
| the start.
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=787261&rl=1
Related:
Cross platform development for Windows and Mac OS X
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| This article focuses primarily on some technical aspects of Qt,
| Trolltech's cross-platform C++ toolkit which, as you may know, is
| the architectural core behind the KDE desktop on Linux. At the end,
| I show how easy it is to create a simple application without writing
| a line of code.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/11/19/cross_platform_development_win_mac/
Anti-DRM Protesters call on the BBC to eliminate DRM from the iPlayer
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| London and Manchester, England – Two weeks after the BBC officially launched
| the iPlayer, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits gathered outside
| BBC Television Center in London and BBC headquarters in Manchester to demand
| that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) be eliminated from the BBC.
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| The BBC have developed the "iPlayer" at a cost to the BBC license fee payer
| of £130 Million and rising.
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| FSF Executive Director attending the protest spoke about the corrupting
| influence of Microsoft, "BBC values have been corrupted because BBC
| Executives are too closely associated with Microsoft. BBC values have been
| corrupted because the iPlayer uses proprietary software and standards made
| under an exclusive deal with Microsoft. BBC values have been corrupted
| because license fee payers must now own a Microsoft operating system to
| download BBC programming. BBC values have been corrupted because license fee
| payers must accept DRM technologies that spy and monitor on the digital files
| held on their computers. We are here today to help BBC Director General Mark
| Thompson, clean up this DRM mess, and to encourage the BBC Trust to reverse
| course and eliminate DRM from the BBC iPlayer"
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/11186/anti-drm-protesters-call-bbc-eliminate-drm-iplayer
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