On 7 Feb 2007, at 14:37, Klaus Stock wrote:

>> Except Bertelsmann are the masterminds behind all sorts of CD
>> copy-protection quackery, such as the scheme that was "cracked" by  
>> marking
>> the outer edge of the CD with a black magic marker.  I'd also bet  
>> they
> were
>> they driving force behind the Sony-BMG rootkit disaster.
>
> They also tried to "own" the internet some years ago. They failed,  
> like
> Microsoft.
>
>>> Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly."
>>
>> Good for Jobs and Apple!
>
> Like in "Embrace, extend and extinguish"?
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish)

That's a Microsoft tactic, not an Apple one. Apple doesn't even own  
the underlying formats like AAC or mp3 anyway.

>
> Jobs is of course known to have his customers suffer from his  
> radical mood
> swings,

When was that?

> so who knows what he'll be up to next ;-)

Improving the world a bit at a time?

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