Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for AIR's "Linux Support"
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| Given that Adobe’s evangelists have a very difficult time telling the truth
| about which platforms Adobe actually supports (particularly pernicious with
| regard to Flash; see Uh, Thanks for the “Linux” Support for one example),
| does anyone really think that AIR will run on anything more exotic than
| 32-bit x86 GNU/Linux? Set aside the fact that, as much as Ted’s quote may
| make you think that AIR runs on “Linux” right now, it sounds like no one
| outside of Adobe will see that binary blob until later this year.
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| When I think about cross-platform support, I think about the first time I
| sent e-mail on the Internet via a FidoNet gateway accessed through a PC
| bulletin board from my Commodore 128 over modem-to-modem dialup in the very
| early ’90s.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/03/dont_hold_your_breath_waiting.html
Back to the basics at Red Hat.
Fedora 9 to remove pointers to proprietary codecs
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| The Fedora project board met on March 11 and decided to remove the pointers
| to the "non-free" Fluendo codecs from Codeina (aka CodecBuddy) for Fedora 9.
| This is a big change from the Fedora 8 behavior.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/273710/
Related:
Flash Fears of DRM
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| Adobe, we're sick of Windows; we don't want to virtualize it; we don't want
| to use Wine to run your applications; we want you to put two and two together
| and realize that as small as our market share might seem on paper, there's
| actually quite a lot of us. And every day, our open source products are
| getting better and better, catching up to your programs (in some cases
| surpassing them), and before you know it, we won't even remember your name.
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Flash_Fears_of_DRM.html
Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash
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| Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that
| with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player
| and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software. Instead of an ordinary web
| download, these programs can use a proprietary, secret Adobe protocol to talk
| to each other, encrypting the communication and locking out non-Adobe
| software players and video tools. We imagine that Adobe has no illusions that
| this will stop copyright infringement -- any more than dozens of other DRM
| systems have done so -- but the introduction of encryption does give Adobe
| and its customers a powerful new legal weapon against competitors and
| ordinary users through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/51
Nobody likes DRM, including attorneys for Microsoft, Real
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| At this week's Digital Music Forum, lawyers managing digital rights for
| Microsoft's Zune music download site and RealNetworks' Rhapsody said that
| they too believe digital rights management to be more of a headache than an
| asset.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Nobody_likes_DRM_including_attorneys_for_Microsoft_Real/1204236728
Embarrassed by DRM
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| The point behind all this is, of course, to conceal the very existence of DRM
| from the user..
|
| Ergo, we need to shout about the presence of DRM from the rooftops: the more
| people know about it, the more they will dislike it, as Microsoft well
| understands....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/embarrassed-by-drm.html
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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