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Old 08-30-2006, 02:03 PM   #1
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LXer: Three Feet from Gold: Why ESR is Wrong to Advocate Compromise


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Eric Raymond advocates pragmatism and compromise with respect to our dealings with the owners of proprietary multimedia codecs. According to him, we need to ask Apple and others to license their technology so we can hook up iPods to our machines running Linux. That will entice others to start using Linux, or so goes his reasoning. But this reasoning is flawed. First and most importantly, it's flawed because we're so close to the gold, so to speak.

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Old 08-30-2006, 02:21 PM   #2
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To sign on to proprietary codecs means signing on to Digital Rights Management. Have we gone so far to now cave in to the MPAA and the RIAA?
Somebody evidently got to ESR. His stubborness and unwillingness to compromise have always caused some friction with his contemporaries, but up to this point, he has generally been right. Now that he has taken what seems obviously to be an untenable position, those same character traits are going to be a real disservice to Linux.
 
  


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