The Inquirer: Intel to cut Linux out of the content market

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob () drzyzgula org>
Date: July 15, 2005 9:39:55 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: The Inquirer: Intel to cut Linux out of the content market


  <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638>

| By: Charlie Demerjian  Friday 15 July 2005, 10:01
|
| INTEL IS ABOUT TO CUT Linux out of the legitimate
| content market, and hand the keys to the future of
| digital media to Microsoft at your expense. Don't like
| it? Tough, you are screwed. The vehicle to do this is
| called East Fork, the upcoming and regrettable Intel
| digital media 'platform'. The funny part is that the
| scheme is already a failure, but it will hurt you as
| it thrashes before it dies. Be afraid, be very afraid.
|
| [...]
|
| So, that is what it is, how does it sell you up the
| river? The first part is DRM. Any DRM on a machine
| is simply a sign of failure. It signifies that the
| providers cannot, or will not provide you with a good
| product at a fair price. People are inherently averse
| to getting screwed, in the way that Intel is doing
| mind you, and if you try to screw people, they will
| avoid you. If you offer them something they actually
| want, they tend to readily open their wallets. This
| crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is
| the surest sign that you don't want this product,
| and you will be paying too much for it. Don't like
| that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure
| you will go to jail if you try to exercise your rights
| on the issue.
|
| [...]



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