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Resisting the binary blobResisting the binary blobPosted Nov 14, 2006 18:52 UTC (Tue) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)Parent article: Resisting the binary blob
Shopping on Emperor Linux yesterday, I was encouraged that it is quite easy to design a system to use the Intel video chip.
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Resisting the binary blob Posted Nov 15, 2006 1:17 UTC (Wed) by grouch (subscriber, #27289) [Link]
You probably already know about this, but others might not:
um, you are already locked in by Real Posted Nov 16, 2006 5:52 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421) [Link] If you are using RealAudio format then you are already trapped by vendor lock-in, regardless of whether you use an iPod. Using open file formats is far more important than what hardware/OS you pick. The latter trap can be replaced, the former trap (especially for lossy compression) is much more difficult to escape.
um, you are already locked in by Real Posted Nov 16, 2006 9:19 UTC (Thu) by morhippo (subscriber, #334) [Link] Unless the format is DRM restricted, I think mplayer should be able to recode the realaudio music into any free format.
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