--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] "I'm on unix, I'm much better than windows users!" (was Pd-extended 0.42.5 release candidate 6 released!) To: "João Pais" jmmmpais@googlemail.com Cc: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 4:05 PM On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote:
(and the most "coherent" is that they always rebel
against windows, but not against mac, which in these days is more commercial and bigbrothery than windows ever was - acording to some comments from friends that use mac)
Microsoft has got 90% of the computer market by the balls. They don't really need any other tricks than that (such as DRM or whatever). For Apple or any company, it's a lot easier to expand themselves in a place where Microsoft isn't already. I think that you understand that Microsoft got its 90% not just by selling quality software, and that you understand why so many shops absolutely refuse to sell a computer without Windows even though there's a market for it. Isn't this the most damaging thing going on every day in the industry ?
Maybe, but to get around that problem you just do what Yves was talking about and help someone switch to a free os. Regarding music specifically, however, Apple's actions are more worrisome to me.
Apple is involved deeply in getting computer files to behave less like "pure data" and more like old media formats. Actually it's worse than that, because with an audio cassette player you could record as many copies of an album as you could afford. You can't even make your own personal copy with Apple's aac files from Itunes (and if you do it's illegal in the U.S.).
Unlike Microsoft users, who usually have a healthy dose of animosity toward the os, Apple users love their software. To me, this is one of the biggest problems in the industry because it means that people aren't asking really obvious questions in response to DRM. (For example: why is fair use _shrinking_ when technology is making the cost of copying/distributing music next to nothing? Instead, it should be expanding, right?) If in 10 years sharing my music files with you isn't as easy as touching you on the shoulder, you'll mainly have Apple and the RIAA to thank.
Another obvious question: if I'm buying an entire album of music files in a restricted format that locks me into using Itunes and makes it nearly impossible (AFAICT) to transfer over my music library to GNU/Linux, shouldn't I be paying _substantially_ less for those files than if I bought the album on CD?
-Jonathan
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