Archive for September 28th, 2005

Why one Mac owner might go back to Windows

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Russell Beattie, a Yahoo employee has never been known as a cheerleader for Windows. However, he lists 33 complaints about Macs: reason enough, in his mind, to switch to back to Microsoft.
Reason #1:
Anyone who says that Macs are more stable than Windows are smoking dope. I have two brand new Macs and they regularly [...]

Congress to legislate file swapping?

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

This is just ridiculous. A California senator (who I’m sure has had healthy donations from the entertainment industry) has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down.
From Techdirt:

Her opinion is that she needs to put forth legislation to outlaw these “peer to peers.” Considering what appears to [...]

Eolas Patent Upheld by Court

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Via TechDirt:
The Eolas patent on browser plugins was upheld in court. It covers “a system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object” — basically, a browser plugin. This is a perfect example of ridiculous patents [...]