[GTALUG] microsoft giving away science fiction ebook, free but DRMed

Stewart C. Russell scruss at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 08:52:03 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-18 10:05 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> <http://news.microsoft.com/futurevisions/>
> This is a collection of short stories "inspired by microsoft".

Unless it features annoying robotic paperclip sidekicks, Big Bob Brother
and huge killer blue screens, I'm not interested.

> (I haven't checked that there is DRM but I'd be surprised if each
> store applied its own.)

Don't worry, they will. Mercifully, we have good folks like Apprentice
Alf who make DRM go away, so we could have an epub of this if we wanted.

cheers,
 Stewart


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