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Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

Posted Jan 11, 2004 18:50 UTC (Sun) by tjansen (guest, #18615)
Parent article: Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

I am not sure whether this is funny or sad. By propagating DRM companies like HP are helping the competition from countries like China to be not only cheaper, but to have also better products.


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Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

Posted Jan 11, 2004 20:31 UTC (Sun) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link]

Their solution to that will probably be to try and get the sale of non-DRM
equipment banned in the US, and then get the US to lean on the its trading
partners to do likewise. Having the best product by blocking anyone who
tries to sell a better one is hardly a new approach.

Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

Posted Jan 12, 2004 3:48 UTC (Mon) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959) [Link]

Lean on China? Ask the WiFi hardware makers what is happening on that! [IIRC China has created its own standard and has mandated that all vendors must comply... Now *that* is leaning]

Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

Posted Jan 12, 2004 15:11 UTC (Mon) by euroderph (guest, #18639) [Link]

Yes, I guess that if China did not exist we'd have to invent it. Simply because Europe and other big players have shown little or no spine in resisting America's preposterous, anti-consumer, shameful IPR/DRM demands.

Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)

Posted Jan 12, 2004 16:33 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

There is no need for banning... availability and market volume will make DRM hardware, if triumphant, to the same or cheaper price of normal hardware.(DRM hardware will not run "everyday?" version of Linux and NORMAL hardware wont run future versions of the monopoly Windows)

WE NEED A F/OSS-LINUX HARDWARE PLATFORM DEFENITION AS PRIORYTY

I've tryed to inquirer about the availability of buing the "Windows Media Server OS" version,... and there is none... only for OEMs, like HP, that bends over to them, and to their campaign NGSCB/Paladium of hardware for nothing but M$ software... (market strategy and the DOJ settlement probabily has something to do with that).

Meanwhile i'm trying to build a personal PVR system with knnoppix;
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
Although i've runned into a few hardware support issues, its getting along fine, to the point of i recomended it.

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