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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Microsoft, predictably enough, focused on a "lock everything to our platform" strategy. CEO Steve Ballmer calied every Ipod owner a "thief" and arguing that every record company should wrap music in Microsoft's Zune DRM, which would allow them to restrict anything they didn't like, even if copyright allowed it (and would also give Microsoft the same abusive leverage over labels that they famously exercised over Windows software companies):

https://web.archive.org/web/20050113051129/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39124642,00.htm

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