Re: [tlug] WMP on Linux

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 10:04:40AM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> And Thus Spake Jonathan Q <jq@example.com> (on Mon, 5 May 2003 14:44:28
> +0700):
> 
> > Haven't seen this on TLUG yet, so let's start the day with the
> > news that MS is having Windows Media for Linux development
> > done by a third party:
> 
> You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
> 
> Linux is all about open source and Free Software. Do any of us want to use
> software, from Micro$haft or not, which implements DRM? I certainly don't.

Yeah, but rethink it. The (relatively) small number of us who feel that way
are a miniscule percentage of the "consumer device market".

Quote from the article:
"Porting to Linux allows Microsoft to get its digital-rights management 
software into the consumer device market."

Ed Wright