FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> > R&D labrats producing `high-value IP' ...
> 
>   Yah, right.  Like any of those types are going to leave that stuff
> behind.
> 
>   Sure, the rules say they have to leave them behind.  The rules are
> ignored.  Just like the rules about not bringing cell phones into
> hospitals, or turning them off when driving by a blasting site.
> Finding someone who is even aware of the rules (let alone follows
> them) is hard.
> 

I had to comment on this one.

Many years ago Digital had guards at every single door of their
hardware R&D facilities.  Anyone with a briefcase going out of the
building had to stop and open the briefcase to show that they had no
circuit boards in the briefcase.  If they had a circuit board, or any
type of electronics, they had to have a "property removal pass"
typically signed by a VP.

Of course this did not apply to magnetic tapes, so any software person
could walk out of the building with hundreds of millions* of dollars of
IP on the magnetic tape** and "nobody cared".

md

*This was so long ago that even congress had not developed the idea of a
billion dollars yet.

**By today's standards these were low capacity tapes.  It is likely that
a billion dollars of IP would not have fit on it even if we knew what a
billion was.