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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Stephen Donaldson <steve@cyberqual.com>
  Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:47:41 +1030

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

>> It will be compsulory if you wish to watch Hollywood content.
> If it's not on your drive how can it be compulsory?

If it's not on your drive you won't be able to decode the Hollywood content;
which is, I think, what "it will be compulsory if you wish to watch
Hollywood content" must mean.

>> 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?

Any disincentive to use Linux, such as being unable to get the software that
drives the hardware that Hollywood requires you to use if you want to view
movies, is a threat to Linux.  There is no technical reason why Linux cannot
have such software, just as their is no technical reason why Linux cannot
have CSS software.  Never the less we must wonder if Linux will be permitted
to have that software especially since, until recently, it was not permitted
to have software for CSS.

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