>*Big* difference. One may not agree with the conclusions, but at least  
>there are no incendiary remarks.

You don't know incendiary. You want to see incendiary, read this...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10148896-27.html

"MSN Mobile Music: Worst idea ever?"

"Now here's a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company's 
been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new 
music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, 
even though the rest of the music download industry is finally moving 
away from DRM. Make sure that the downloads are tethered to the user's 
handset, so they can't keep them when they upgrade phones in a year or 
two. Charge more than the competition. Then, when questioned what the 
heck you could possibly have been thinking, blame a business partner 
who's actually running the store for you!

"That's what Microsoft has done with Thursday's launch of MSN Mobile 
Music..."


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