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Proprietary Allergy for "Linux" and ZDNet Promoting Proprietary Paperwork
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XDA ☛ Linux never got a licensed DVD player, and the code everyone uses instead ended up on T-shirts and in a haiku
Chances are high that you've watched a movie on your computer before, and if you're old enough, you may have done so woth a good old fashioned DVD. However, it didn't used to be as simple as just put a DVD in your computer and start watching, especially if you used Linux. In fact, watching a movie on your computer used to be somewhat of a legal minefield.
At the center of that minefield was a Norwegian teenager, Jon Lech Johansen, who just wanted to watch DVDs on his Linux box. And the program he helped write, DeCSS, was what cracked the encryption that kept free operating systems from playing commercial films, and it set off legal fights in Norway and the United States that ran for years. In Oslo, Johansen was acquitted twice, and the code itself turned into a kind of speech that people would read aloud at conferences.
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ZDNet ☛ This Linux and Windows app makes managing all your documents easier
Paperwork is free and can be installed on any Linux distribution and even Windows. Naturally, I installed the app on Linux (Pop!_OS to be exact).