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Maybe Vista doesn't suck?
Ralf Maximus:
Everytime I read this stuff I just get angry all over again.
nontroppo:
CNet's gadget arm have included, rightly or wrongly, Vista in its Top10 worst tech products of all time:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
rssapphire:
For example there has been / is still a hot debate going in the Linux community because it was suggested the kernel needed DRM measures for this very same functionality. Unless I've been mistaken.
-justice (November 22, 2007, 09:09 AM)
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It will not happen -- or if it does someone will fork the kernel and produce a version without all that DRM crap. Servers don't need it and many workstation/desktop/laptop users don't watch DVDs (let alone HD-DVDs) on their computer. (They have a TV for that. Bigger screen. More comfortable seating. Etc.) If there were a HD-DVD ready DRM-ed to the gills Linux kernel today, I doubt many would use it. That's the beauty of open source, stuff like this can't be forced on those who have no use for it and do not want to pay the price in CPU cycles and RAM just to have it there.
f0dder:
You can't do (the kind of) DRM (the media wants) in an open kernel, realistically, anyway. It needs all the obfuscation to be effective.
Carol Haynes:
CNet's gadget arm have included, rightly or wrongly, Vista in its Top10 worst tech products of all time:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
-nontroppo (November 27, 2007, 07:33 AM)
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I really liked that page - I always wanted a Sinclair C5!
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