[Open-graphics] DRM on Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, etc.

Timothy Normand Miller theosib at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 13:18:12 EST 2007


On 2/23/07, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Nick LaForge <nicklaforge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think anybody here would implement DRM if it wasn't necessary
> > to stay afloat...
>
> No one seems to have found definitive proof that a monitor exists that
> won't accept anything but HDCP over HDMI, let alone a dearth of
> monitors that accept regular DVI over HDMI.  So how do we need DRM to
> stay afloat?

As far as we know now, we don't.  And for that matter, we don't REALLY
need to know for a little while yet.  Well, I don't.  Some others may.

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Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Favorite book:  The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman, ISBN
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