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By sogrady
— September 1, 2006 at 11:26 pm
  • http://tieguy.org/ Luis

    I and at least one other gnome dev (Bastien Nocera) unsubbed from emusic because of their non-rollover subscription policy. If they fixed that, people would probably be a lot more likely to work with it. That said, see: http://projects.matt-good.net/trac/emusic-gnome

  • http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady stephen o’grady

    Luis: i understand and certainly sympathize. nor would i be unappreciative of that feature myself. but the question remains – apart from you or i – would it be useful to have a music purchase and acquisition service rolled tied into Linux generally, or GNOME specifically?

    i think the answer depends on what your goals are. if the goal is indeed to compete, at least on some basis, with Apple and Microsoft i think the answer is probably yes.

    if you accept that, the question then becomes: what’s your best option? from where i’m sitting, it’s clearly emusic, because it’s the only one not applying DRM. i’d hope that some of the unfortunate subscription decisions – which may, in fact, be necessary for them to be a viable business – don’t obscure that.