[NEWS] Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die

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| Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die |
| from the penguins-hate-ultimatums dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 11, @11:39 (Media) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/152234 |
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Baronvaile writes "ArsTechnica is running a story about RealNetworks VP
Jeff Ayars at LinuxWorld Boston discussing [0]the future of Linux for the
consumer, if it does not support DRM." From the article: "Ayers has a few
supporters in this issue from the Linux camp, as Novell, Linspire, and
Red Hat spokespeople reportedly said they would be happy to add DRM to
their distributions, but with some caveats. Novell, for example, is
"currently in discussions with vendors who control proprietary formats"
with the goal of supporting these formats in SuSE Linux. One can only
surmise exactly which formats that would be, but recent rumblings from
Redmond make it likely that Microsoft DRM solutions such as PlaysForSure
could be among them."

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http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/11/152234

Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060410-6569.html

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