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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem is that if I was to stop buying eBooks with DRM, I'd be missing out on eBooks I want to read.
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Yes, but that is the stance of the open source world on many things. "If I can't buy book X without DRM... then I just won't read it. If I can't buy game Y without DRM, then I just won't play it."
You can do that with your personal stuff, but if you are in university for example, and they do all of their programming assignments in Visual Studio (i.e., the teacher _expects_ you to send in a Visual Studio solution), then you will have to run Visual Studio... and thus you will have to run Windows.
You just can't say: "I won't run Visual Studio or Windows because they're not open source. I won't buy Windows." If you do, you can't do the assignments. And I think not many people are THAT hard-core about it that they are going to try and find a university that uses open-source software only.
(Back when I was in university, 20 years ago, there were no such requirements; the professor just required the C / C++ files, and an executable that ran on Windows 2000. What software, compiler, or OS or whatever you used to create the files and executable was of no importance. So if you ran Linux, or a Mac, and could cross-compile to Windows that was sufficient.)
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Originally Posted by rantanplan
You can use KOBODL, it works without the need to have ADE. It has a very nice UI as a bonus.
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What's this? I've been out of the book buying loop for some time. I'll have to look into this. I (still) use ADE 2.01 because version 3, 4 (and newer?) uses a different DRM-scheme that can't or isn't yet cracked (if that hasn't changed since I last looked into it a few years ago).