After takin' a swig o' grog, Tim Smith belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Apparently, you consider holding events near a rival to be unfair.
> Would you be happier if they used free software tactics, and actually
> went *into* the Apple store and hogged the store's resources, so Apple
> customers were denied service, like the FSF did, when it wanted to
> protest Apple?
To protest Apple's DRM.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10000290-16.html
July 26, 2008 8:03 AM PDT
FSF launches a denial-of-service attack on Apple's Genius Bars
At OSCON this year, MySQL's Brian Aker made this bold statement:
Microsoft is irrelevant....We're more worried about Apple.
. . .
Perhaps this is why the Free Software Foundation, which wants to protect
everyone's freedom (except, oddly, on the web), has gone on another
Quixotic campaign to save the world from Apple's DRM (Digital Rights
Management) by clogging its Genius Bars with freedom-loving
developers asking questions about freedom and then logging Apple's
non-free responses.
Not exactly what I would call an issue between "rivals".
<music type="folk">
Who's side are you on?
Who's side are you on?
</music>
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Micro Credo:
Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.
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