On 01.07.2007 21:10, Georg Acher wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:43:04PM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > If only the hardware vendors where as "united" as the movie-industry. > > HDCP was invented by Intel, Silicon Image holds a lot of patents on DVI and > HDMI. As long as they can sell chips and licenses, they don't care about the > consumer, looks quite united to me ;-) That's the "back-stabbing"-part i meant. You can be certain that there is someone to pick up a knife laying around. Here is another example of such a "knife" thing from today: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/07/01/0221213.shtml They invented it because they think that someone will want it (and most probably someone will), just the same as Intel/Silicon Image. Another word would be: "anticipatory obedience" ("vorauseilender Gehorsam" (translated by dict.leo.org)) Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
