A Reuters article reveals that the French are after Apple for its closed, proprietary system. The proposed law would make it legal to crack digital rights management schemes to enable conversion from one format to another.
The merits of an open format for music purchased from iTunes is certainly worthy of discussion. However, that decision rests [...]
Kirk Lennon
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The French Attack on Apple
Who Elects Terrorists?
The Bloomberg headline, “Hamas Refuses to Recognize Israel After Moscow Talks” reveals the absurdity of the entire Palestinian movement. Hamas is a terrorist organization, recently elected as the goverment of the Palestinian Authority. Israel is a real state. It has a stable government and, more importantly, protects individual rights. As a result, it is fairly [...]
Is South Korea Taking Lessons from the North?
The South Korean government is currently investigating Samsung over the “unfairly low price” it is being paid by Apple for the flash memory used in iPods. Apparently Samsung is providing the chips at a cheaper price than what Korean music player manufacturers are paying. Yesterday Apple announced that it would prepay Samsung for $500 million [...]
In Defense of Oil Companies’ Profits
I want to give kudos to America’s oil companies for their behavior at today’s hearing of the Senate Engergy and Commerce Committee. Yes, it would have been nice is they have tore into the Senators as vicious thieves, but given the current situation, I am quite content for them to just politely– but unappologetically–defend their [...]
Problems with the Open Document Format
InformationWeek has a new article, “Sun Updates StarOffice; Touts Open Document Advantage Over Microsoft.” Before I mock Sun Microsystems, I should say that I do, in fact, like the idea of StarOffice (and the free variant, OpenOffice.org). It’s a full-fledged office suite that you can get for free (in the case of OpenOffice.org) or for [...]