[Dtb-talk] downloading books from RFBandD

[T. Joseph Carter]

Greg,

As long as it gets implemented at some point, I'm happy with the 
result.  A closed source plugin to manage the DRM is fine as far as 
I'm concerned, so long as you can predict how to futureproof your 
plugin ABI a bit so that I don't need a constant stream of new 
plugins at $20 a pop, along with the delays while RFB&D gets 
themselves set up to distribute the new version.

I considered the closed source plugin solution for that kind of thing 
once before, and considered doing it with an interpreted environment 
so that the resulting plugin could be used on multiple architectures 
and OSes without a recompile.  There wasn't much interest at the 
time, though it was years ago now.

Count me willing to beta test when you're ready for it.  =)  I'm 
already a pretty heavy Olearia user.  I have development experience, 
though I left the industry some years ago because I like to sleep at 
regular intervals.  Still, I'm quite comfortable with SCM tools, know 
how to use gdb well enough to get you useful backtrace information, 
and pretty good at testing edge cases.

Joseph

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On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:30:13AM +0800, Greg Kearney wrote:
> There are two issues here. One is dowloading the books and the other is 
> playback of the books.
>
> I hope to have sofeware to do the downloading ready soon.
>
> As for playback we plan to support playback of rfbd books in Olearia as a 
> closed source plugin which they can distribute. They have provided the 
> needed information to us to do this.
>
> Greg
>
> Sent from my iPhone