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EFF points to DRM as a driver of vendor lock-in. I would point to opaque, often proprietary standards for dynamic, user-hostile data formats. Word processing
by unyttigfjelltol 5y ago
EFF points to DRM as a driver of vendor lock-in. I would point to opaque, often proprietary standards for dynamic, user-hostile data formats. Word processing documents come to mind. DOCX and DOC never have been fully cross-vendor compatible as far as I can tell. And the leading word processor doesn't transparently support a format that is. The situation is improper it's an anti-social moat for the dominant software vendor to construct.
- pornel 5y agoServer-side software is even stronger than DRM. DRMd software, at least in theory, could be cracked or run under emulation. You can't crack GMail to run your own version of it.