Vitanuova for 2006 August 12 (entry 0)

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Round two, fight! >

Fred noticed that my picture is on Engadget, illustrating a story that doesn't have anything to do with the Apple protest. (The story is about CEA criticism of legislative campaigns on digital radio by the recording industry.) Nonetheless, the commenters are pretty much all commenting on the picture (and our criticism of iTunes) rather than the article.

The newest criticism: that I misspelled Steve Jobs's name. Nope: that's the wind's fault. The "s" is there on the sign, hidden by my colleague's leg. Behold the actual original file I used to create the sign with Rasterbator.

I hasten to assure all critics that nobody at that protest supports, recommends, endorses, commends the creation of, or hopes for the success of Microsoft's PlaysForSure project. Nor does any of the participants agree with Microsoft's attempt to define "standards", "choice", "flexibility", etc., as supporting Windows Media. That's why the same campaign started by protesting Microsoft's DRM initiatives at WinHEC.

See also my earlier responses to commenters who were unhappy that Defective by Design protested Apple.


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