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Submission + - Jobs to Labels: Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Pric

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eldavojohn

on Monday May 07, 2007 @08:06AM

eldavojohn writes: "Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been talking smack about DRM and has recently issued a verbal offer to major music lables stating that if they are willing to loose the DRM, he'd be willing to raise his 99 cent price for those iTunes songs. These tracks (such as the recent EMI deal) would also have better sound quality & cost about 30 cents more."

Submission + - Linux: A Musician's OS?

Submitted by lazyeye on Monday May 07, 2007 @06:45AM

lazyeye writes: Keyboard Magazine has an in-depth article about the state of music production on Linux. While it does introduce Linux to the average musician, the article does get into some of the available music applications and music-oriented Linux distributions out there. From the opening paragraph:

You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.

Comment Re:Intel open enough for me (Score 1) 213

by ChuckX on Thursday October 05, 2006 @10:42PM (#16331857) Attached to: Intel — Only "Open" For Business

What if someone wanted to build an embedded device using a MIPS or ARM CPU.

Portability... very good point. I didn't have it in mind at the time, but it is another excellent reason against binary blob drivers.

As to the FCC being a reason why they are not releasing the information. I can honestly say that it is an educated guess based on working with the FCC on getting a device certified.

One would hope that the controls for such restricted functionality would lie within the device's firmware, not in the kernel space code. If it's not, I'd probably consider it sub par engineering. It would explain the lack of frankness about the issue.

He should probably be asking what can we do to include your firmware and blog in our tree?

I believe that the OpenBSD crew has made it clear that they repeatedly attempt to be amicable with hardware vendors before raising flags in the user community. Such tactics have always been a last resort. It's unfortunate that they become necessary before giving up altogether.

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