A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copy-restriction technologies. But the Free Software Foundation Europe ...

My fellow ZDNet blogger, David Berlind, has a great post titled The skinny on desktop Linux pros, cons and adoption where he does a good job of spelling out what is hindering Linux as a widely ...

Here's hoping it goes well.

In a development that has energized the Linux gaming community, GOG (Good Old Games) has officially confirmed that it is working on native Linux support. While GOG has long provided Linux installers ...

It's obvious to most Linux users that Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a really bad idea. It's not just because DRM-encoded media usually won't play with our operating system, but rather because we ...

Asahi Linux ', it became possible to install Linux on Macs with Apple chips such as M1 and M2, but Asahi Linux had the problem that 'Netflix movies cannot be viewed'. . Security researcher David ...

For one, it is DRM-free. If you buy a track from this music store you know your own personal freedom and enjoyment will not be curtailed. You can burn the music to a CD for your car. You can load it ...

Does Steam selling games with DRM in the free and open source environment of GNU/Linux defeat the entire point? That's what Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU operating system and Free Software ...

Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, threw a curve ball to the open-source programming community Thursday. In a posting sent to a key Linux-focused e-mail list, Torvalds outlined ...

I want to play my music files that I purchased on iTunes on my Ubuntu 7 Linux desktops. I legally purchased and own the music outright. I don't always want to play them on my Mac or Windows PCs. The ...