> > From: Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/11/04 Fri PM 02:43:12 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: OT: Interesting article for those who buy Sony music CDs. > > 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
No story content for me. > > 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 > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
