Submission + - Perils of DRM: When Content Providers Die 1
An anonymous reader writes: If you purchase music or movies online, what happens if the vendor goes out of business? Will you have trouble accessing your content? The question came up recently after HDGiants — provider of high-quality audio and video downloads — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A consumer says his content became locked inside his PC. Walmart customers suffered a similar fate last year when the retailer shut down its DRM servers. And if Vudu dies? Your content may be locked in a proprietary box forever. Time to start buying discs again?
Submission + - F-Secure: Ditch Adobe Reader, use Free Software (cnet.com)
hweimer writes: "Yesterday at RSA security conference, F-Secure's chief research officer recommended to drop Adobe Reader for viewing PDF files due to the huge amount of targeted attacks against it. Instead, he pointed to PDFreaders.org, a website maintaining a list of free and open source PDF viewers."
Comment Re:Just a few is enough (Score 2, Informative) 218
...his redefinition of the word "free" to make a point to first time I heard it - let alone the tenth time he jumped down some poor journalists throat for using the word the way the dictionary defines it
He never tried to re-define the meaning of the word "free".
"Free"(as adjective) has 2 main meanings (which are very different from each other).
He just tried, and still tries, to explain to which one he referes when speaking about Free Software, but, in general, it seems that lot of people can't understand that point yet.
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