[mythtv-users] Is the Digital Future bleak?

David Campbell dave at cpfc.org
Mon Jun 4 11:20:09 UTC 2007


Brian Wood wrote:
> 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?".

Brian - In my experience a huge slice of people now now what open source 
is thanks to the work of the Mozilla foundation and other projects such 
as Azeurus, Gaim, Audacity and dare I say it Mythtv.

Dave


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