[geeks] Walgreens software, was Quicktime 7 Pro missing stuff?

[velociraptor]

On 11/27/05, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> And for all those reasons, some suit is probably trying to have it shut
> down and people sued.  After all, cramming advertising down your throat
> and choking up your whole machine is what computing is about these days;
> anything less is robbing the starving music/movie execs, forcing them
> into lives of poverty that only allow them to maintain one private jet
> each.
>
> Who, me, bitter?  *spit*

I am heartened by the negative response to Sony's latest tricks,
especially, for instance, that the Texas AG has filed suit against
them.

It's just a matter of time, between this kind of ridiculous disregard
for consumer rights, the continued increase in visibility to the general
public of peer-to-peer technology and individuals producing and
distributing their own content, before the "tail" will make the bell-curve
obsolete, and kill IP companies that don't pay attention to their audience.

The media would like us to believe that blogs, podcasts, and other
"non-media" sources of information and creative works are "mediocre",
but they forget that in a world where the sources are endless, consumers
can and will *choose*.

"What Business Can Learn from Open Source"
http://store.yahoo.com/paulgraham/opensource.html

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