On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:17 -0500, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> >From the original article that started the thread, this may in fact become
> more difficult. Vista proposed DRM implementation will fundamentally NDA all
> drivers and any information to write drivers that have the potential to
> show premium content.
> 
> So it looks like the days are coming where new audio/video hardware will
> be unable to have Linux drivers for them.

Why? On the video side both nVidia and ATI/AMD have Linux binary drivers
available now. I don't know why Vista DRM requirements will impact the
release of drivers for Linux systems. It's proprietary and closed
source, so no "leakage" of information.

Even if the manu supplied drivers stop it won't change much, people have
been "figuring out" hardware in order to write linux drivers from the
start, they'll figure out these new pieces of hardware too.

TTYL


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