OK, this is stupid. If you want DRM free mp3 files, or any other format, buy the CD. Then do as you wish. Even works with iTunes and iPod. If you want the simplicity of downloading the song, instead of running out to the music store, comply with what you agreed to when you purchased the music.
The thing that is cool about Eclipse is that the workbench can be much more than a simple IDE. As a plugin developer, I can use the workbench as an integrated desktop environment that allows me to keep all of my applications in an easily managed, well organized framework. For example, I find that I always have an mp3 player running when I'm writing code, so I quickly wrote an mp3 view for the workbench. This is a trivial example, but it suggests that a user could have a set of plugins that are organized into pages to perform common tasks, all readily available through the workbench.
Actually, SWT isn't proprietary (nothing is, Eclipse is an open source project.) It was simply designed to get around some of the limitations of existing Java GUI approaches. I've never used it on Linux, but the GUI performs well on W2K. Once a plugin is loaded, switching between components is actually very quick.
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OK, this is stupid. If you want DRM free mp3 files, or any other format, buy the CD. Then do as you wish. Even works with iTunes and iPod. If you want the simplicity of downloading the song, instead of running out to the music store, comply with what you agreed to when you purchased the music.
The thing that is cool about Eclipse is that the workbench can be much more than a simple IDE. As a plugin developer, I can use the workbench as an integrated desktop environment that allows me to keep all of my applications in an easily managed, well organized framework. For example, I find that I always have an mp3 player running when I'm writing code, so I quickly wrote an mp3 view for the workbench. This is a trivial example, but it suggests that a user could have a set of plugins that are organized into pages to perform common tasks, all readily available through the workbench.
Actually, SWT isn't proprietary (nothing is, Eclipse is an open source project.) It was simply designed to get around some of the limitations of existing Java GUI approaches. I've never used it on Linux, but the GUI performs well on W2K. Once a plugin is loaded, switching between components is actually very quick.