[Tfug] iTunes going to DRM-Free - does that mean a Linux player/manager will be easier to build?

[Anthony Hess]

Of course now iTunes users can take their files that they buy from  
iTunes and put them on many more devices and OSes than they could when  
they were sometimes DRM afflicted.

Its not perfect but its a big win now that all music is available DRM  
free.

Tony

On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Claude Rubinson wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:43:52PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
>> c title.  I've run into a few people now who are deeply into the  
>> whole
>> iTunes thing already and it hurts their ability to transition to  
>> Linux
>> as iTunes/win doesn't run well under Wine and is even glitchy under a
>> VM in some respects (burning audio CDs).
>
> DRM isn't the reason that iTunes doesn't run under *nix.  iTunes
> doesn't run under *nix because it's proprietary software and Apple
> hasn't ported it.
>
> Does DRM-free music from Apple permit people to transition to free
> audio players?  Of course.  But I doubt that Apple's going to open up
> the iTunes store to non-iTunes clients.  Which means that iTunes users
> are going to remain wedded to iTunes.
>
> Claude
>
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