Comments

• Logan

  2008-03-14 13:53:20

  The MIT/DRM story is misleading
  
  "While the MIT Libraries have not been able to get all the assurances we would like regarding SAE’s plans for implementing other DRM tools in the future, after consulting with faculty we have decided, as Professor Cheng put it, to “work with SAE in good faith,” reentering what we hope will be a productive partnership."
  
  “work with SAE in good faith,” whatever that is.
  
  Is not even certain that they in fact removed the drm.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-14 14:05:52

  I found this in BoingBoing, which concluded from this that DRM was "killed" in MIT. People in MIT have protested about this for at least 4 months, as far as I know. Similar protests go on against the Boston Public Library. The reasons are similar.

• CoolGuy

  2008-03-14 17:08:49

  DirectX is just another boaltware like any other m$ software. I hope that it is the next to get a whipping from OpenGL

• Victor Soliz

  2008-03-14 17:27:29

  I think we should begin to worry about and prevent XNA adoption, it is slowing becoming a very big risk vector.
  
  MS' definition for "cross platform" now means "Vista and Xbox 360". On walls, MS requires you to have both directx and .net , this makes XNA games totally unplayable on Linux, did you know that? It also targets only a single platform on the console side.
  
  The very bad thing is that it is actively promoted at sites like gamedev and gamasutra as the next cool thing, I am fairly sure there's MS money behind all those articles selling it as the holy grail.
  
  It will be VERY bad, and all work done by WINE so far to fix the incompatibility issues will go to the trash if more devs begin to adopt it for multimedia.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-14 21:35:20

  Oh, I saw Miguel talking about XNA the other day. Surely, Microsoft wishes to ensure its rivals stay barren when it comes to games. Exclusion is the company's way of doing business.