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Next-gen Nokia Linux devices will get multitouch and Qt UI (ars technica)Next-gen Nokia Linux devices will get multitouch and Qt UI (ars technica)Posted Oct 14, 2009 14:07 UTC (Wed) by freealter (guest, #4335)In reply to: Next-gen Nokia Linux devices will get multitouch and Qt UI (ars technica) by viiru Parent article: Next-gen Nokia Linux devices will get multitouch and Qt UI (ars technica)
Yes we can blame content provider for using DRM. I absolutely agree that it is a technical dead-end, that it has no meaning, that it is idiot, ... I used your exact argument (if you can see it ...) 12 years ago in Thomson Multimedia. But the DRMs are there. They are used, and for video I think that they are going to stay for long. Even if the DVD protection system is dead, it is still used and will continue. So the DRM for streaming are very common and will stay.
So if we want to have linux users having access to these contents, and it becomes to be very important, we must have a legal, technical answer. As Nokia does.
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Next-gen Nokia Linux devices will get multitouch and Qt UI (ars technica) Posted Oct 14, 2009 14:44 UTC (Wed) by viiru (subscriber, #53129) [Link]
As long as the answer means giving up all the advantages of free software, I can't say I'm very interested. Then again the model described in the article would allow the user to choose either DRM or freedom, which is acceptable and much better than the alternative case in which complicated jailbreaking and reverse engineering efforts are needed to get to use the hardware.
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