Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 11, 2006 @03:39AM from the penguins-hate-ultimatums dept.

Baronvaile writes "ArsTechnica is running a story about RealNetworks VP Jeff Ayars at LinuxWorld Boston discussing the future of Linux for the consumer, if it does not support DRM." From the article: "Ayers has a few supporters in this issue from the Linux camp, as Novell, Linspire, and Red Hat spokespeople reportedly said they would be happy to add DRM to their distributions, but with some caveats. Novell, for example, is "currently in discussions with vendors who control proprietary formats" with the goal of supporting these formats in SuSE Linux. One can only surmise exactly which formats that would be, but recent rumblings from Redmond make it likely that Microsoft DRM solutions such as PlaysForSure could be among them."

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Re:Linux to Real Networks... by Ilgaz · 2006-04-11 04:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Begging what? Linux community?

As far as I know, they are the only (stupid?) company to commercially support Linux platform and have a DRM capable program since they (stupidly) care about your OS.

One day, they remove "linux" from that drop down list, I wonder who loses. After 3-5 unstable builds, your Mplayer supports half of the formats they currently give away for free. No worries.

It becomes "microsoft". You know, the company which says "DIE" to other OSes they didn't ship themselves and still amazingly get supported more than Real networks.