Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market

An Anonymous Reader wrote in to mention an Inquirer story suggesting that Intel is planning on cutting Linux out of the content market. From the article: "The vehicle to do this is called East Fork, the upcoming and regrettable Intel digital media 'platform'. The funny part is that the scheme is already a failure, but it will hurt you as it thrashes before it dies. Be afraid, be very afraid."

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fp?

[Anonymous Coward]

Captchas are dumb.

Go away, you're not 21

[tepples]

step outside and go for a walk

"I don't have any legs, you insensitive clod!"

see a local band

"Go away, you're not 21." A lot of towns don't have venues for independent music apart from places that serve a lot of alcoholic beverages. Besides, what happens when all the local bands get sued for infringement through subconscious copying?

have sex with your wife

Not everybody can afford to take care of yet another child.

Re:Go away, you're not 21

[Mad Marlin]

Gothmolly: have sex with your wife.

tepples: Not everybody can afford to take care of yet another child.

You could always stop being Catholic.

In other news...

[Afecks]

The MPAA and RIAA announced a joint merger with Merrick Biotech to start production and mandatory implantation of the new DRM-enabled retinas and cochleae. In the following months there will be a nationwide campaign and everyone will be expected to report their local genetic compliance facility for the implants.

Re:I wrote that piece

[Great Contribution]

Article was crap. I'd mod parent troll if I had mod points.

Someone's got a plan to kill Linux... again

[zlogic]

This is just another plan to kill Linux (and I don't think it will be Linux-targeted) which will fail.
SWPAT failed in Europe, Microsoft FUD isn't trusted anymore, hardware vendors are supporting Linux more and more (take a look at nVidia or ATi for instance), even Thompson's MP3 patents or the ban of DECSS disn't kill Linux.
Even RIAA didn't kill filesharing, and I even think they've stopped filing lawsuits.
However the idea of 10 bucks a month for completely legal and unlimited music (first offered by Napster I think) sounds great to me. In fact even though I'm listening only to pirated music I consider it to be a good bargain. If it's supported in Linux then it means I can have CHEAP content along with a FREE OS.

Re:will not hurt me at all for I am a criminal.

[knipknap]

ripping CD's, DVD's

Has this apostrophe in plural words thing also something to do with you being a Linux user?

Re:So how is this going to kill fair use?

[jacksonj04]

Hey! I'm one of those Windows users, and I'm fairly certain I'm not just a sheep.

Anyway, Linux isn't ready for desktop usage yet. I've come up with a 3-step plan (Sadly no profit, this is free software after all) for this.

1. Come up with some decent standards for interoperability, package distribution, user interface, and network administration.

2. Implement these standards in all major open source applications.

3. Wait for the changes to slowly propogate and the end users to learn the altered (hopefully far nicer to use) commands etc.

Once this is done, and 'Linux' can function as a single entity as far as the end user is concerned, then it can begin to become a major desktop platform.

Come on. There's "Works for Sure" for Windows Media; why not "This is gonna just work" for Linux instead of "This will work if you're lucky, or recompile it with these switches and a patched version of this library".