Re: What was that about hubris?

[charlie derr <cderr () simons-rock edu>]

Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> Macs rock.  It's hard to say bad things about them, 

<snippage>

Maybe so, but I love a challenge, so please let me try :-]

DRM is the scourge of the earth and it's so embedded into the OS (with all kinds of shady marketing to try to make 
itunes as 
ubiquitous as possible) that I wouldn't trust an Apple OS any more than I'd trust a Windows OS.


I don't agree with everything Jeff Atwood writes, but I'm pretty close to the position he posted in this blog entry:


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001044.html


Also, there are lots of folks who argue with me that "itunes doesn't contain any DRM anymore"  If that argument was on 
the tip of 
your tongue I urge you to consider how you could possibly know that for sure (without some kind of insider knowledge of 
their 
hidden & proprietary code (and ongoing access to that for future releases of the OS and/or itunes upgrades).

     be well,
           ~c
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