Microsoft - and all its DRM buddies - continue to claim up to this very day that DRM won't affect the consumer too much, "given that cost (..) is most heavily influenced by volume". However, behind closed doors the bird is singing quite another song. The following is taken from a presentation at the WinHEC 2005. Read this and shiver.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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4 years 34 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago
The masses don't know or care about
The masses don't know or care about DRM. They will continue to purchase DRMd goods thus supporting these companies. Education is the best way to combat DRM.
kiba
4 years 34 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago
Supporting DRM will eventually
Supporting DRM will eventually become suicide for these companies especially when drm-less hardwares begin to win favors and acceptance in the marketplace.
Like the neo1973.
Protesting DRM in the street is unnecessary, because their business model is already flawed in the first place. A better method is to be supporting of DRM-less hardwares to accelerate these companies' defeat.
kiba
4 years 34 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago
aboutblank: Some of them will
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Some of them will get annoyed by DRM technologies. They will complain and look elsewhere.
But that is not all. The market force come into play. DRM have little evidence for contributing to the bottom line. It may be that removing DRM technologies that boost someone's profits.
If they refuse to do it right, someone else will eventually do it right. Eventually they'll be forced to adopt DRM less hardware.
DRM-less is a competitive advantage. It is inevitable that DRM will fall out of favor.