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Open source helps Western Digital prioritize product features
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| Thanks to open source freedom, Western
| Digital's MyBook World Edition is a better
| choice than Apple Time Capsule for home
| backup
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/open-source-helps-western-digital-prioritize-product-features-905
Open Solutions Alliance and OW2 by N. HALSEY Jaspersoft
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| The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), based in
| California with commercial and end-user
| members in the United States and Europe, was
| created to drive the adoption of open source
| applications in enterprises and the
| collaboration between commercial open source
| vendors to enhance and increase the
| interoperability of open source solutions.
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http://www.intelli-n.tv/Paroles-d-Expert/Video-open-source-Open-Solutions-Alliance-and-OW2-by-N.-HALSEY-Jaspersoft/(googleactus)/123456.html
Related:
Western Digital's 'crippleware': Some lessons from history
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| We published shortly before Christmas 2000, and a fascinating and fairly
| nerve shredding few days followed. There was no anti-DRM lobby at the time:
| no P2P bloggers to hound the manufacturers. But understanding this one
| required learning some obscure technical procedures, and a little about
| standards committee politics.
|
| [...]
|
| This brings us to the second difference from the turn of the decade - and
| it's slightly more positive. Technological restriction mechanisms such as DRM
| are, more often than not, bad for business.
|
| [...]
|
| Yet even if Microsoft implements driver-level support for External Path
| protection (as it has for "Secure Audio Path") - will there be any takers?
|
| I doubt it. DRM is falling away from music as sound recordings owners begin
| to realise they need radically more attractive offerings to compete with the
| unstoppable tide of free music. No technology force majeure will step in to
| save rights holders today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/12/western_digital_filesharing_panic/
Western Digital DRM'd Hard Drive Won't Let You Share MP3, DivX ... Or Impulse
Tracker
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| The manual's appendix and online support site provide setup instructions for
| SAMBA, allowing access over IP instead of with the DRM-infested and
| poorly-reviewed client app, elsewhere claimed to be "required."
|
| MOAR! Samba not enough? Gut the firmware and install made-to-measure Linux:
| An entire community of folks is here to help you hack your MyBook:
| mybookworld.wikidot.com.
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/western-digital.html
Seagate snubs Linux
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| As our reader points out this is a, "fairly shit idea perfectly
| implemented, " unfortunately while Windows can handle it, Linux and Mac's
| can't cope.
|
| There are a few work-arounds but Seagate Tech Support says they do not know
| what they are. Instead they are telling man plus dog that their latest drives
| do not support Linux.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/seagate-snubs-linux
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