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Submission + - Why Linux HDCP isn't the end of the world (collabora.com)

Submitted by mfilion on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:32PM

mfilion writes: Recently, Sean Paul from Google's ChromeOS team, submitted a patch series to enable HDCP support for the Intel display driver. HDCP is used to encrypt content over HDMI and DisplayPort links, which can only be decoded by trusted devices. However, if you already run your own code on a free device, HDCP is an irrelevance and does not reduce freedom in any way.

The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time 370

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 24, 2006 @10:57AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is carrying a story by Richard Stallman which blasts Sun's recent Java move, claiming it is deceptive and self-serving, makes Java neither free nor even open source, and leaves him wondering why it has attracted so much attention."

Comment Re:Linux on the Mac is for Masochists... (Score 1) 289

by fooishbar on Wednesday October 27, 2004 @08:29AM (#10640550) Attached to: Ubuntu For PPC, And As A Live CD

You should be able to do USB scanners, printers, and Bluetooth pretty much out of the box (although you need an external repository for Bluetooth stuff as it's still in development). If you plug in hardware and it doesn't Just Work, we consider this a bug, so please file one!

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