October 11, 2005
Open Does Beat Closed, Unless By “Open” You Actually Mean Closed
Rob Glaser continues to confound:
“Both [Bill] Gates and Glaser said the deal should help their companies compete against Apple.
“Apple does great products and has done a number of them in the music
(realm),” Glaser said. “At the end of the day, we think consumers want
choice. We think consumers want openness…Over time–it won’t happen
overnight–I think ‘open’ will beat ‘closed.’”
Too bad Real and MS don’t offer true openness and choice in the media space. And for that matter neither will Sun.
Say it with Ed now: “DRM, in other words, strives to create incompatibility between the
approved devices and uses, and the unapproved ones. Incompatibility
isn’t an unfortunate side-effect of deficient DRM systems — it’s the goal of DRM.”
Filed by Derek Slater at 4:51 pm under General news
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