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I dare suggest no such thing

---Apple refuses to license their DRM to anybody and you dare
to suggest that MS is the only company being anti-competitive?
At least MS licenses its DRM! Which is better: limiting
competition to a handful of others (MS) or refusing to compete
at all (Apple)? Or when you say any other company did you really
mean to say any other company except for my beloved
Apple?---

I suggested no such thing. Apple is certainly being
anticompetitive with their DRM licensing policy. However, unlike
MS, they're smart enough not to go around announcing publicly
that the whole reason their DRM exists is to thwart competition.
And you'd have to be doubly stupid to say such a thing after
repeatedly being in trouble for antitrust violations, right?

Which is all a red herring anyway. Because "he did it too" does
not make it okay, two wrongs don't make a right.

---If MS hasn't blocked Firefox up until now, there is no reason
to believe that DRM will suddenly give them the ability or desire
to do so in the future.---

As I understand it, Vista is built differently from XP and previous
versions of Windows, with the whole "trusted computing"
mentality. We'll have to see how this translates, over time, into
either deliberately limiting competition (as MS has announced
they will do), or just a way to force more people to pay some
sort of tax to get their programs/hardware to work with Vista.

---Finally, this is hypocritical at best since the only company
that has actually used anti-competitive measures to block the
execution of programs is... Apple! OSX will not work on any
hardware that isn't sold by Apple. There is absolutely no
technical reason why OSX couldn't run on any x86 computer yet
Apple artificially stifles competition to gouge consumers and
maximize its profits. You are concerned that MS might do this in
future when the truth is that Apple is doing this right now!---

Another red herring. He did it too is not an excuse.

Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 02/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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