Apple and Independent Developers

Corleone writes "We've seen a realization recently that Microsoft isn't standing still with Longhorn, and countering Longhorn has been pushed to the forefront. That is why I found the concept of Apple being the larger danger in Rhapsody in Yellow so ironic. The author skirts the scary question: would Apple porting their frameworks to Linux give them undue influence over the direction of the free operating system movement? This is after recent reports saying missing programs are the biggest thing holding Linux back on the desktop. Macromedia has interest in their tools on Linux, surely many others are too. This would seem to allow thousands of companies a simple path to the Linux market but with Apple as the gateway. If not Apple, what of Microsoft porting their engine?"

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Re:The real problems of Mac development

[Powercntrl]

Slashdot: Where t-r-u-t-h is spelled t-r-o-l-l.

On a lighter-but-still-bad-for-Apple note, DeDRMS can be patched to decode the new FairPlay version 2 songs by removing the following code:

if( Encoding.ASCII.GetString( adPRIV, 0, 4 ) != "itun" )
{
throw new Exception( "Decryption of 'priv' atom failed" );
}

You still need your DRM keys, but you can get them with VLC by copying your songs to a computer running an older version of iTunes.