Sony doesn't seem to be too good at this sort of thing. A few years ago it was copy protection on audio CDs. Undefeatable, they called it. They licensed the technology to quite a few other companies. Some kid with a sharpie beat it. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52665,00.html
Some time ago I purchased a Sony CD-RW drive. I think it was on sale. Once I had the drive installed I found that it wouldn't work with my burning software of choice. After a few google searches it became obvious that no burning software except Sony's would work with the drive. Apparently, Sony refused to share the drive specs with other software makers. Sony, of course, shipped a nagware version of their own software with the drive and wanted me to cough up another $30 for the version that would handle an ISO file. Back to the store it went. I'm still voting with my wallet. Since about 2000 or 2001 I haven't purchased a single Sony branded product (TV, stereo, music CD, computer, nothing). I would guess that I have probably bought something containing Sony components. On 11/4/05, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And the second point is this: If Sony are prepared to act like this, what > might that even bigger and more ruthless company, Microsoft, be prepared > to do? Sony's inept effort was easy for a competent programmer to spot, > but Microsoft could embed something so deeply into an otherwise perfectly > innocent and valid program that nobody would know it was there. They > might even have done it. And it might well already be in Longhorn, or > whatever they call the next version of Windows. > > Time for another look at Linux, methinks. I like Linux. I ran Slackware for the last few years and liked it. But it requires some hands-on to get it the way you want it. Very little is automagical. It still resides on the laptop. My workstation is running Ubuntu. It's worth a look. http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- "You have to hold the button down" -Arnold Newman
