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Comment Re:They haven't "fixed" it at all (Score 1) 144

by ahl_at_sun (#23760171) Attached to: Apple Quietly Fixes DTrace

They don't have to do anything to help DRM. Look at Linux: it works just fine without kernel support for DRM, doesn't it?
Right, that's why you see so much content available from record and movie companies available on Linux.

There's still no way to play a DRM'd Apple video file outside of iTunes/iPod/AppleTV. That's significantly more restrictive than, say, a DVD.
Totally. And there's absolutely no DRM on a DVD player and Blu-ray is making things even less restrictive. But surely this was posted by a slashdot-focused eliza program -- no human is this naive.
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Submission + - Apple crippled its DTrace port

Submitted by Linnen
Linnen writes: One of developers of Sun's Open Source system tracing tool has found that Apple crippled its port of the tool so that software like iTunes could not be traced. From Adam Leventhal's blog;

I let it run for a while, made iTunes do some work, and the result when I stopped the script? Nothing. The expensive DTrace invocation clearly caused iTunes to do a lot more work, but DTrace was giving me no output. Which started me thinking... did they? Surely not. They wouldn't disable DTrace for certain applications. But that's exactly what Apple's done with their DTrace implementation. The notion of true systemic tracing was a bit too egalitarian for their classist sensibilities ...

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