Groklaw has a nice write up on the concerns of many regarding Microsoft’s “announcement” of support for ODF. While I think Microsoft certainly deserves some credit for moving in the right direction, “the proof is in the pudding”. They’ve not earned any trust and I’m sure this will turn in to some treachery in the long term as well. We’ll see…and here is to hoping that Ray Ozzie can turn Microsoft back into an industry participant.
No, microsoft is surely not the first, and wont be the last. All you people who keep buying encrypted iTunes music will face the same thing one day, but at least you have the option of burning the files to CDs. Get started early, because burning 30 GB of music to CD is gonna take you a while.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/04/23/drm_claims_more_victims_as_microsoft_fails_its_music_users.html
The handbrake gui no longer works due to changes in how mono was packaged in ubuntu. I’ve made a simple dummy package that satisfies the dependency in the existing debs. This only applies to hardy. Linuxcrypt has a writeup here, along with the deb.
