Mark Pilgrim’s list of Ubuntu essentials for ex-Mac users:
Cory Doctorow: Mac guru and software developer Mark Pilgrim recently switched to Ubuntu Linux after becoming fed up with proprietary Mac file-formats and the increasing use of DRM technologies in the MacOS.
What I read was more like “I lost a bunch of my own metadata that I didn’t back up.”
Seriously, what better way to gin up a bunch of traffic than to encourage some new fanboy wars?
And Cory’s predictable rants about DRM are tiresome: does he really think Apple likes the DRM arms race? I guess someone has to defend the “death before DRM” position but I find it a little disingenuous to leave the media companies out of these rants: they are the ones behind it.
At the same time, I don’t consider Apple a victim, more a conflicted middleman. They would likely sell more iPods and MacBooks without DRM, as the presence of those technologies forces some buyers elsewhere. Has anyone ever bought a DRM-disabled product because of the DRM component?
I didn’t think so.