Tag Archives: DRM

links for 2008-01-08

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Media and Entertainment News Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV – New York Times “Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than seven million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-09-28

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Amazon Kills DRM And Puts iTunes On Notice – Apple Unvarnished – InformationWeek “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) today launched its long-awaited digital download service, Amazon MP3, offering 256 Kbps unprotected MP3 music files for 89 cents and 99 cents.” (tags: mp3 … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-09-11

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Two OOXML “Standards,” Microsoft’s and ECMA’s? Frankly Speaking: Microsoft’s Cynicism “After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent standard — a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember — Microsoft won’t agree to follow it.” (tags: microsoft ooxml … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-08-10

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source, or Not Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux – News and Analysis by PC Magazine “Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-05-18

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Latest CrossOver for Linux ups 3D game performance “CrossOver 6.1, released May 15, enables enables Linux PCs and Apple Mactels to run more Windows applications and games, and with higher 3D performance, according to CodeWeavers.” (tags: windows mac … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-05-04

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Bob Sutor

DRM and the Commons Digg Rebellion Shows That Crowd Is Law – Yahoo! News “On Tuesday, Digg users rejected the community news site’s effort to censor posts that revealed a 32-digit number, the “processing key” that can be used to … Continue reading →

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A sea change in the music DRM world?

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Bob Sutor

CNET and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that Apple is willing to give up DRM completely in the music it sells via iTunes if the record companies will agree. If this is happening in the bastion of DRMocity, what … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-07

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Bob Sutor

HTML, SVG, and MathML The Beginning of the End | Musings “Sam Ruby has been busy. He�s been lobbying for changes in the HTML5 Specification which will, ultimately, enable embedding of MathML and SVG in HTML5 documents.” (tags: mathml svg … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-26

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

snellspace.com � Blog Archive � Kill Switch (tags: ubuntu linux microsoft) Vista and More: Piecing Together Microsoft’s DRM Puzzle “The copy-control technologies baked into Vista and the Windows Media platform cover plenty of ground, but who benefits?” (tags: vista windows … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-09-28

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I’ve been somewhat remiss lately in adding some links, so this should bring me up to date. Open Source InfoWorld | The Philippines goes open source “Infotech is reporting that the Department of Social Welfare and Development has officially moved … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-07-18

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source The open source effect | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com ‘At the Churchill Club forum held on June 21, several open source company executives discussed the “Open Source Effect.”‘ Links to a podcast. (tags: opensource podcast) Eclipse Summit … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-21

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Bob Sutor

One of everything today, including an open source-related career move. Higgins Trust Framework makes its debut at Harvard ID conference “Earlier today, here at the Identity Mashup Conference being put on by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet … Continue reading →

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DRM and interoperability

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Bob Sutor

One of my del.icio.us links that will show up today is to an article about the Coral Consortium’s latest spec for DRM interoperability. First, let me state that I am not a DRM technical expert in any way, but in … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-15

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Bob Sutor

SOA / Web Services IBM launches SOA Business Catalog “IBM Corp has announced what it calls the IBM SOA Business Catalog, a collection of reusable IT services based on its own and its partners’ software.” (tags: soa) PRESS RELEASE: IBM’s … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-14

Posted on June 14, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source IBM Releases Autonomic Software to Open Source “IBM on June 14 said that it has released software to the Apache Open Source Foundation designed to help automate the detection and remediation application or transaction problems in the data … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-10

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source / Spreadsheets Bricklin Updates Collaborative Spreadsheet “Software Developer Dan Bricklin Updates Concept for Collaborative Spreadsheet Program” (tags: spreadsheet opensource) Socialtext to distribute wiki spreadsheet tool “Social software company Socialtext will redistribute and co-develop WikiCalc, an online collaborative spreadsheet … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-08

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Evidently I went a bit overboard with the links in the last twenty four hours, but here they are. Linux $100 laptop ‘will take desktop Linux global’ “The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on … Continue reading →

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Vista, Office, fonts, portability, and a different form of lock-in?

Posted on June 8, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I love fonts. In the 1990s I went out to Redmond for an open Microsoft meeting to talk about font technology. It was technical, geeky, and I got a cool T-shirt (one of several that Microsoft has given me during … Continue reading →

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DRM and documents

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Others are starting to talk about the concerns about DRM and lock-in via documents, such as this piece in IT Week quoting Cory Doctorow. Here’s an excerpt: In an exclusive interview with IT Week, Doctorow said the Trusted Computing digital … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-05

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Linux Timeline | Linux Journal “100 of the most significant events in Linux history.” (tags: linux) RubyGems | Linux Journal “A comprehensive guide to finding, creating and using Ruby resources called gems.” (tags: languages ruby programming) OpenBusiness Via … Continue reading →

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Back to Berlind, DRM, and my supposed missing logic

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I’m way overdue in responding to David Berlind’s post from May 19 with the catchy title “IBM’s Sutor understands DRM, but logic misses major point”. I just went back and reread David’s entry where evidently I was lacking in logic … Continue reading →

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Neil McAllister at InfoWorld mixes it up with the FSF over DRM

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Over at InfoWorld, Neil McAllister just published a piece called “Free Software Foundation: Free as in ‘do what I say’”. In it he says, in part, All the more reason to be disappointed by the FSF’s recent, regrettable spiral into … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-05-27

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Education and Standards IBM Dispenses Resources in a Struggling Region “Designed to build open standards skills and promote collaborative learning, the new initiative between the ACA and IBM will provide students and teachers with a wide range of free IBM … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-05-26

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source What’s next for the Portland project Improving desktop linux. (tags: linux) Proposal: Open Source Atom Implementation From James Snell. (tags: atom opensource) DRM Playlist: Apple still faces DRM hurdles, uncertainty in France “But a more restrictive version could … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-05-23

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Bob Sutor

AJAX and Open Source OpenAJAX Alliance Sets Road Map (tags: ajax) Java and Open Source Sun still not answering the call to open source Java | InfoWorld “Truthfully, there were no champagne corks popped here at the InfoWorld offices following … Continue reading →

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Berlind and the DRM thread

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Bob Sutor

First, as far as I’m concerned, David Berlind OWNS the main thread around DRM through his many blog entries over at ZDNet. I’ve started to collect those and others for a future interactive corner of my website, but that’s a … Continue reading →

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Two new blog podcasts

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I’ve just put up two new podcasts from blog entries I posted in the last couple of days. Each is around four and a half minutes long. Click on the link or the graphic to access the mp3. Podcast for … Continue reading →

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Consumers and DRM

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Bob Sutor

To be clear and explicit, this is a personal opinion, not a corporate one. I was just reading Marc Wagner’s ZDNet blog entry from two days ago called “Why do consumers accept DRM?”. DRM stands for “Digital Rights Management.” He … Continue reading →

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Documents and DRM

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Bob Sutor

Via David Berlind, here is a link to an article that discusses the future use of DRM with documents. For those of you who have been tracking the OpenDocument conversations, I think this is important. I think a lot of … Continue reading →

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