Comments on: Licensed into knots http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/ Life on the last frontier - mobile app development. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:53:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Richard Marshall http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/#comment-498 Richard Marshall Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:47:26 +0000 http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/#comment-498 Remember the tax on blank cassettes to try and stop people making copies? That was huge when I was at University. Never happened! This is just the same thing in a more elegantly stupid form. Remember the tax on blank cassettes to try and stop people making copies? That was huge when I was at University. Never happened! This is just the same thing in a more elegantly stupid form.

]]> By: Duncan A http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/#comment-494 Duncan A Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:26:29 +0000 http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/#comment-494 The thing is, they've been losing money due to this lack of openness for years! Illegal downloading of MP3s exists because of it. But their reaction has been the opposite of the one you and I would think was sensible - they've closed up even tighter and tried to sue anything that moves. Way to win customers! Dunc The thing is, they’ve been losing money due to this lack of openness for years! Illegal downloading of MP3s exists because of it. But their reaction has been the opposite of the one you and I would think was sensible - they’ve closed up even tighter and tried to sue anything that moves. Way to win customers!

Dunc

]]> By: robin http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/#comment-399 robin Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:34:00 +0000 http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2007/03/28/licensed-into-knots/#comment-399 We agree! What the hell is happening? Well, Microsoft's good buddies - opps, I mean digital entertainment delivery partners - are crooks. They will only "wake up" to opening up when their hand is forced (i.e. they start losing money, or not making as much, which is the equivalent in their eyes). We agree!

What the hell is happening? Well, Microsoft’s good buddies - opps, I mean digital entertainment delivery partners - are crooks.

They will only “wake up” to opening up when their hand is forced (i.e. they start losing money, or not making as much, which is the equivalent in their eyes).

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