[mythtv-users] Is the Digital Future bleak?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Jun 4 07:30:59 UTC 2007


F Peeters (MythTV) wrote:

>> I doubt that will happen.  After all these years there's still no
>> legal way to play DVDs on Linux.  Why should we expect any different
>> when it comes to HDTV?
>>
> If we can convince enough people, we may be able to change this...
> 
> Tell people about why Vista and DRM are bad for them...
> 
> http://www.defectivebydesign.org
> http://www.badvista.org
> 

The vast majority of people have no idea what open source is. I recently
put Open Office on a fellow's machine and he said "This is great, it's
better than Office, I'll buy it immediately, How much?".

I still don't think he believes me that it's free, he thinks I stole it
somehow, because that's the only way he's ever heard of to get "free"
software.

All of us on this list often forget that over 90% of computer users have
never seen or even heard of anything but Windows, and if they have it
was a Mac.

Things are changing, but slowly.

BEWW


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