Back of the Bus Is Where the Cool Kids Are
How Microsoft Tries To Defeat Competitors at the Expense of Consumers
I just finished reading an article over at ‘I, Cringely’ about how Microsoft plans to use a new USB standard to cripple Linux. More appropriately, this article should is about how ultimately this is just going to cost consumers.
I say this because, as the article points out, people are going to go out and upgrade all their USB devices so that they aren’t limited to read only mode. But for those of us running Linux, well, I think we’ll likely keep what we have. Think I’m wrong? Well feel free to spend your money but I think I’ll keep saving up for that new Piper Seneca V that I want. The movie industry spent a considerable amount of money coming up with a protection scheme for DVDs and yet in 1999, people running Linux were able to run DVDs on their computers, without any licenced software and no matter what the region encoding was.
So while it might keep Linux down initially, I’ll be able to use these new USB devices eventually, if not right away.
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:33 Posted in Linux
