Comments on: links for 2006-09-02 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/09/01/links-for-2006-09-02/ because technology is just another ecosystem Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:16:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: stephen o'grady http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/09/01/links-for-2006-09-02/#comment-2312 stephen o'grady Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:08:24 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1030#comment-2312 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. 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.

]]> By: Luis http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/09/01/links-for-2006-09-02/#comment-2311 Luis Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:50:41 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=1030#comment-2311 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 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

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