You don't get it. You CAN copy all your Star Trek DVDs for your friend right now, CSS-protected or not. Stick one in your Linux or Mac computer, open a terminal, type dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso, and then wait a while, stick in a blank DVD, and write the ISO to disk using any burning application. You can probably just use Nero or some other Windows DVD copying thing to do it too. DVD copy protection does nothing to prevent copying DVD movies. Not a sausage.
The only thing it does is make it illegal (thanks to the DMCA) to crack the trivial encryption so that you can have a legal DVD playing application on Linux, and make it illegal to rip the DVD movie to your iPod. In the USA, it's "try use your bought-and-paid-for content the way you want, and get sued by the MPAA/RIAA."
Now Canada, formerly the actual land of the free, is facing new USA-style copyright legislation "reform" like the Americans have, thanks to big dollars in American media companies bringing to bear via (another bought-and-paid-for commodity), US legislators. Piss off US media companies!
to get built for Linux. The whole product embeds every microsoft technology possible, including basing core functionality on IE6. The most likely outcome will be that Alias products will become Windows-only. I give Linux and MacOS Alias products one more rev before it goes strictly Windows.
My inlaws are both German and learned english by watching TV after they emigrated to Canada in the 50s. They both always use of incorrectly instead of have.
This is just to say I'm happy to hear that Patrick is doing better. I learned Linux on Slackware starting waaaay back with pre-1.0 kernels (I think), and I have a true appreciation of all that he's done for the Linux community.
not the consumer version. This version is for use in big business by general knowledge workers. It's features are maintainability and stability of pachages, not end-user featuritis. In other words, it's for corporate desktop drones. It's designed to work best in a corporate environment, of course complementing Novell's upcoming Open Enterprise Server. It's timed to match the upcoming release of that product.
SUSE Linux 9.2 Pro is the geek version, for home and mobile users mostly.
According to our Novell rep, they will indeed be porting GroupWise's back-end to Linux, and are already partway along. He also said they are going to be developing a Ximian Connector product to connect Evolution to GroupWise, similar to the way they did for Exchange.
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You don't get it. You CAN copy all your Star Trek DVDs for your friend right now, CSS-protected or not. Stick one in your Linux or Mac computer, open a terminal, type dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso, and then wait a while, stick in a blank DVD, and write the ISO to disk using any burning application. You can probably just use Nero or some other Windows DVD copying thing to do it too. DVD copy protection does nothing to prevent copying DVD movies. Not a sausage.
The only thing it does is make it illegal (thanks to the DMCA) to crack the trivial encryption so that you can have a legal DVD playing application on Linux, and make it illegal to rip the DVD movie to your iPod. In the USA, it's "try use your bought-and-paid-for content the way you want, and get sued by the MPAA/RIAA."
Now Canada, formerly the actual land of the free, is facing new USA-style copyright legislation "reform" like the Americans have, thanks to big dollars in American media companies bringing to bear via (another bought-and-paid-for commodity), US legislators. Piss off US media companies!
Only Americans like Rush.
to get built for Linux. The whole product embeds every microsoft technology possible, including basing core functionality on IE6. The most likely outcome will be that Alias products will become Windows-only. I give Linux and MacOS Alias products one more rev before it goes strictly Windows.
My inlaws are both German and learned english by watching TV after they emigrated to Canada in the 50s. They both always use of incorrectly instead of have.
This is just to say I'm happy to hear that Patrick is doing better. I learned Linux on Slackware starting waaaay back with pre-1.0 kernels (I think), and I have a true appreciation of all that he's done for the Linux community.
not the consumer version. This version is for use in big business by general knowledge workers. It's features are maintainability and stability of pachages, not end-user featuritis. In other words, it's for corporate desktop drones. It's designed to work best in a corporate environment, of course complementing Novell's upcoming Open Enterprise Server. It's timed to match the upcoming release of that product.
SUSE Linux 9.2 Pro is the geek version, for home and mobile users mostly.
According to our Novell rep, they will indeed be porting GroupWise's back-end to Linux, and are already partway along. He also said they are going to be developing a Ximian Connector product to connect Evolution to GroupWise, similar to the way they did for Exchange.
Why the fsck doesn't anyone on Slashdot know how to spell losing? loser? lose? It appears they don't teach spelling in school in the US.
Here are some examples for those of you who were educated at the same school as the President of the USA.
"If I weren't so fat, my pants would be looser."
"If I weren't a 98 lb weakling, I wouldn't keep losing my pants."
Get it right!