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From: "Geo." 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> 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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