Monthly Archives: March 2007
What a shock! DRM turns customers off
May be preaching to the choir here, but this post over on Consumerist is a good example of how Digital Restriction Management helps companies lose customers rather than make more money.
While I must admit being tempted to simply click away and download the collection, I though to myself, "Well, if I buy the music [...]
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What a friendly guy: Ion3 dev has a snit fit
Wound up reading this post by Tuomo Valkonen about a potential license change for the Ion3 window manager. This guy has a major future in PR if he ever decides to stop developing niche window managers:
I will be refusing to deal with the average Debian luser, just like I can't be bothered to deal with [...]
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Speaking of Google
This alone would be a good reason to work for Google. A Bacon Krispy Kreme Burger. Damn, but that does sound good... for all the wrong reasons.
I had the good fortune to visit Google's caf during the Ubuntu Developer's Summit last fall, but they didn't have any of these beauties on the [...]
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Shakes head vigorously
Okay, first off, I sympathize with folks who've seen their Google rank plummet and find that their site's traffic does a tailspin. It certainly does suck if you work hard on something and then find that something as simple as a change in Google's algorithm means problems for your site.
But that does not make [...]
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Linux and OEMs
Mark Shuttleworth has some comments on his blog about pre-installing Linux, and the issues that OEMs face with selling Linux. He's spot on, of course, when it comes to the problems that OEMs have -- margins are already thin, supporting Linux could be pricey, there are tons of distros to choose from (which is great [...]
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