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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> 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.
>

It happened wrt DVD & "Region Encoding".

It also happened wrt most non-MP3 sound formats (e.g. look at OSny).

Noone wants to be left with unsold stock & noone wants to buy something wot is
crippled.


Adam

> 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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