The Future End of Classic Computing

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Tue Apr 2 07:24:38 2002

At 12:26 AM 4/2/02 -0800, you wrote:
>If you're referring to the that DeCSS
>was developed because there was no Linux DVD player, this story is
apocryphal. DeCSS is a Windows-only executable file; there never
>was a Linux version, and the claim that it was developed as a Windows file
because Linux didin't support the DVD file structure is
>nonsense. Moreover, if you need the windows OS to decrypt a DVD, then you
already have a computer that can play the DVD.

Funny. I first came across decss as source for Linux. It wasn't until
later that it was ported to Winblows.

Carlos.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 07:24:38 BST