Posted on 02/19/2007 7:15:23 AM PST by N3WBI3
Actually, it's the software that's DRM'd to identify their hardware. Otherwise, it puts no restrictions on you. Anyway, nice lineup, all white, silver and black like you prefer, and at very good prices for what you get.
Normally that's how I would be, but since this was my first home made box I wanted it to be uber L33711 hahaha!
BS. It's actually just typical anti-MS bashing from you, topped off with another hyperlink to some foreign website. What's funny though is that you have to use Windows every day yourself to pay the bills.
Which one do you have? None of the above, apparently since you never answer.
Yeah, those facts are just so tough to deal with, so you'll attribute it to the nastiness of the evil nation of New Zealand.
Too bad your favored foreign freeware can't even have HDCP encoders/decoders that run natively at all due to licensing incompatibility.
Forget the licenses. HDCP requires that you lose control over your system, and such a concept is anathema to completely open source software.
Lose control? LOL it's a feature and content source pure open source systems won't even have an option to access.
Yes. Your computer saying, "Sorry, you can't use the digital-out on your high-end sound card right now because some third-party company doesn't think you should be able to" is losing control. Your computer saying "I'm going to downgrade the quality of the HD video you just bought because your brand-new $2,000 'HD Ready' monitor doesn't support our DRM exactly the way some third-party company wants it to" is losing control.
LOL it's a feature
Normally, "features" improve the operation of your computer, not degrade it.
Whatever, in this case it's a feature you won't be getting on pure FOSS Linux systems, at least not legally.
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