A clever comment on incompatible (and DRM’d) formats by eboy’s flunters. (Via rss.euge.de)
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by Dan Lockton, 2007 
"I made up my mind... that I would never try to reform man — that’s much too difficult. What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions." R. Buckminster Fuller, 1966
"I made up my mind... that I would never try to reform man — that’s much too difficult. What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions." R. Buckminster Fuller, 1966
why no itunes? surely that’s the king of incompatible drm?!
Wonderful, well thought and well observe.
And p.s., iPod has a “cute” DRM. Don’t like it? You can fetch programs to get rid of it. Don’t want to go through the hassle? Then do what EVERYBODY with a computer has to do, back up your files on a CD and, voila, no more DRM.