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TomHiggins · 08-23-2009, 05:51 PM

Is nice runing Linux as we can avoid much of the DRM clap trap spread out over the years.

Much as I hate DRM i was tempted to try the Adobe Digital Lockdown Editions, I even got as far as installing it on a tinyXP virtual , but at the last moment I got my senses back and rm'd that noise.

Until and unless they make it a benefit to the paying customer I am having little or none of it. Fictionwise was able to sell me, with very little bother, an epub of Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions. If you can get something from Ellison that easy it should be a snap for other authors to get behind it.

As for VirtualBox vs VMware, VB 2.+ and soon 3.+ have some real muscle under the hood such that VMware has not been needed on my systems for some time. Even though a small part of VB is going under a non open license it still is hands down the virtualization app of choice for me.

08-23-2009, 05:51 PM	#15
TomHiggins Emonk Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Soney PRS 505	DRM fluff and bother Is nice runing Linux as we can avoid much of the DRM clap trap spread out over the years. Much as I hate DRM i was tempted to try the Adobe Digital Lockdown Editions, I even got as far as installing it on a tinyXP virtual , but at the last moment I got my senses back and rm'd that noise. Until and unless they make it a benefit to the paying customer I am having little or none of it. Fictionwise was able to sell me, with very little bother, an epub of Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions. If you can get something from Ellison that easy it should be a snap for other authors to get behind it. As for VirtualBox vs VMware, VB 2.+ and soon 3.+ have some real muscle under the hood such that VMware has not been needed on my systems for some time. Even though a small part of VB is going under a non open license it still is hands down the virtualization app of choice for me.