Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Bush Administration Snubs Open Source, Embraces Secret Software and DRM

  • Subject: [News] Bush Administration Snubs Open Source, Embraces Secret Software and DRM
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:05:31 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Feds snub open source for 'smart' radios

,----[ Quote ]
| Mobile-gadget makers are starting to take advantage of software-defined 
| radio, a new technology allowing a single device to receive signals 
| from multiple sources, including television stations and cell phone 
| networks.
`----

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6195102.html

In their eyes, this is the future. No AM/FM. No recording. DRM in every
appliance and radio becoming deprecated. Same with TV as we know it...

The man responsible is named and shamed here:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1190

Based on the Web servers Dems and Republicans are using, there's still hope for
change/reversal.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index