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  From: Stephen Donaldson <steve@cyberqual.com>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:57:19 +1030

Re: end of linux and open source - nobody cares!!

Glen Turner wrote:

> Stephen Donaldson wrote:
> >
> > Actually Alan, much as I do not like the idea of a DVD style of coding on my
> > HD (frankly I don't think it will work, some manufacturer will profit from
> > people like us who value no coding on our drives, after all it is only a
> > specification and not compulsory)
>
> It will be compsulory if you wish to watch Hollywood content.

If it's not on your drive how can it be compulsory?

>
> Linux is threatened in much the same way as by CSS -- an operating
> platform that can't display Hollywood content cannot become a
> mainstream operating platform.

Hmm i'm not sure I follow your logic, do you mean that the operating system will
be no good if it does not have the ATA spec on the hard drive?

>
> What's more likely to kill this is high-end business computing.
> They *want* to make many, many copies of their data, they call
> them back-ups.  So we might end up with ATA-spec drives with
> coding and SCSI-spec drives without.  But Hollywood content
> won't allow itself to be copied to SCSI-spec drives.  In this
> scenario, you pay extra to run Linux and still can't watch
> movies.
>

That could be the case, we shall know most likely by the end of 2001

>
> Alan's claim that "nobody cares" is tosh: Cox and Stallman have
> made their views plain, so at least two influential people care.

Indeed, if we keep it on the boil it will be harder for them to justify their
actions

>
> What we need are people that are influential in Hollywood's world
> to get the Linux virus.  This is inevitable, there's nothing so
> much like a Hollywood script as the development of Linux, but the
> question is one of timing.

Indeed, but the circles they move in are more likely shark like in that they feed
of each other's kills :-)

Much as I dislike it, we need the uneducated, self grandising and wholly self
interested politicians on our side.  I don't think we can count on  the USA now
that Bush is in, it will have to be other countries who try to stop this. All we
need is to find a way to show how much it will negatively affect them and we have
a chance.

Does this kind of bullshit ever stop or is this the everlasting war we must
face...

Steve

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