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From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Is Apple going down the hardware DRM path with it's Mini as a home video
device?

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:458df19b{at}w3.nls.net...
> That's true, but a market shift of sufficient size isn't likely to happen
> inside of the next 3 years, and that's assuming a market shift will in
> fact happen which is a really big IF.  I guess we are just screwed.
>
> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>> news:458d03fc{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> So if one wants to move to Linux, how do you keep all this hardware
>>> encryption and other bullshit from slowing down and destabilizing your
>>> Linux platform?  Will you ever have a great video card with a pure DVI
>>> out on the back of it?  Component video ?
>>
>> There is no law that dictates that the hardware has to implement any of
>> this crap. Microsoft and the other software companies have to require it
>> or the hardware folks don't do it. So if the market shifts to open
>> source, the hardware will follow.
>>
>> Geo.

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