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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #30 on: 20 March 2006, 03:42 »
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Close. The answer is actually that consumers don't want this.

Uhhhh ... how ... what ... how did you jump to this all of a sudden ? I must agree you are a shill for M$ ... no better way to put it ...

As for a DRM crack ... I'm sure there are teams of hackers working on that problem as we speak .... hackers need porn too :D

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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #31 on: 20 March 2006, 04:06 »
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Uhhhh ... how ... what ... how did you jump to this all of a sudden ?

Ummm. Common sense? Years of experience supporting thousands of end users who use Windows? What makes you think that your average consumer would want some antiquated command line OS on their new PC? What would they use it for?

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I must agree you are a shill for M$ ... no better way to put it ...

I have about a much shill in me as you have sense.
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #32 on: 20 March 2006, 04:16 »
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... some antiquated command line OS on their new PC? ...

Is this refering to Linux ? If so you are very wrong ... which seems obvious ...

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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #33 on: 20 March 2006, 04:18 »
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Is this refering to Linux ? If so you are very wrong ... which seems obvious ...

Read the original post genius.
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #34 on: 20 March 2006, 04:22 »
I did ... but I don't understand it.

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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #35 on: 20 March 2006, 04:24 »
Anyhow...Lets just say I was talking about linux. By sying "I'm wrong",are you saying that the average consumer would want linux?
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #36 on: 20 March 2006, 04:24 »
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I did ... but I don't understand it.

Yet you replied.
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #37 on: 20 March 2006, 04:32 »
I got the gist of it and then replied ... what I always do :D

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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #38 on: 20 March 2006, 10:51 »
CONSUMERS DO NOT WANT DRM. If MS did what consumers want, and only what consumers want, they would not support DRM.
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #39 on: 20 March 2006, 11:12 »
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CONSUMERS DO NOT WANT DRM. If MS did what consumers want, and only what consumers want, they would not support DRM.

With proper marketing, consumers will think that DRM improves DVD quality.

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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #40 on: 20 March 2006, 19:00 »
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CONSUMERS DO NOT WANT DRM. If MS did what consumers want, and only what consumers want, they would not support DRM.

Soon linux will support DRM. What will you do then?
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #41 on: 20 March 2006, 19:27 »
If Linux supports DRM, I hope it isn't forced. I may not want to go and buy a digital monitor just to watch DVD's on my PC. As I am hoping to start a business based on Linux media systems, I don't want the extra work of DRM to sort out.
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #42 on: 20 March 2006, 19:47 »
They have to crack DRM ... that's the only plausible solution :thumbup:

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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #43 on: 20 March 2006, 19:55 »
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Soon linux will support DRM. What will you do then?
My point still stands.

I'm not sure in what ways DRM would/will be supported on a free operating system. Anything that's supposed to go into the kernel, anyhow, I can compile without very easily. There are tonnes of free media players. If all the developers lose their heads and try and enforce DRM, I can fork their programs.
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Re: Make box makers use a non GUI OS
« Reply #44 on: 20 March 2006, 22:55 »
Back on topic.

Command line OSes are obsolete (as far as most applications are concerned), but the command line isn't many tasks are faster because you can use wildcards and it's faster to type than use the mouse.

Just a thought but most modern GUI file managers are shit in one respect, they don't allow you to use a wildcard filter, does anyone know of any that do?
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