Re: [SLE] Re: And another 10.1 showstopper

At 08:55 AM 6/1/2006 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:
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On Wednesday 31 May 2006 22:04, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 31/05/06 06:13, T. Ribbrock wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:50:50AM -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
My take is different: "...the patient *almost* died, but it was the only
way to survive at all". In these days of suing the pants off anyone who
even resembles coming close to some odd patent that is hiding
somewhere, I think the only way to make Linux' survival safe is to
avoid all that non-open crap.

Does this mean you won't be burning any DVDs on that Linux system of
yours?

Given that I have no DVD burner, that's an easy one... Are you telling me
that *all* DVD burners need binary-only proprietary stuff (aka "blob") to
work? A quick google doesn't seem to corroborate that (even Debian seems
to support burning DVDs), but maybe you know something I don't?

No, we can restrict the discussion just to pseudo-open source stuff like
libdvdcss which, last time I checked, is not available from any site in
the USA because it's illegal there -- and it's probably illegal in more
jurisdictions than just the USA.

Exactly. And that's your problem. Lawyers and (primarily though by no means
exclusively) the US music and film industries in an unholy alliance with big
computer corporations. Write to them, stop blaming the Linux developers for
having to defend themselves from the anti-democratic intellectual property
and software patent industry. It used to be there to protect writers and
artists, but that has long since been replaced by protecting semi-monopoly
revenue streams for profoundly unpleasant corporations. I would urge US
readers to lobby their politicians.

--
Fergus Wilde
Chetham's Library
Long Millgate
Manchester
M3 1SB

/snip/
If you follow US news at all (many foreigners do, to their credit)
you are aware that the politicions who make up the present administration
are pretty much in the pockets of the semi-monopoly corporations, like,
for example, Disney, and most of the record companies and Big Hollywood.

--doug


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