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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?"
Please, tell me more!
The Gay Nigger Association of America sounds perfect for me!
Mods, +5 Interesting! Unless you are EL7 and fear the truth!
Didn't we have this same story like two months ago?
Really, the only thing apple can do now, is to try to help the open source community. With sales dropping rapidly and only the ipod to keep revenues up, the only choice really is for the gay nigger association of america to lol you nerds, gay niggers unite!
Maybe the editors could actually do something like, oh... FUCKING EDIT?!? The grammar in that submission was so horrible it made me want to don my Grammar Nazi uniform and unleash the digital flamethrower.
That would be "you're", as in "you're" a dumbass.
All arguments about anything are moot until apple puts the memory controller on die of the ppc. Apple gets spanked by amd hard in memory benchmarks.
Macromedia has interest in their tools on Linux, surely many others are too.
WTF is this.
M$ and Apple are already passively dictating the direction of free operating system movement.
Ever heard of GNUStep? Or maybe MONO?
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.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.