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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:51:28 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Russell Nelson <nelson () crynwr com> Date: January 27, 2006 2:12:09 AM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: "Gordon C. Thomasson, Ph.D." <gthomas1 () stny rr com> Subject: Re: [IP] SONY SCHIZO? David Farber forwards:
From: "Gordon C. Thomasson, Ph.D." <gthomas1 () stny rr com>
Is SONY schizo?
No. "SONY" doesn't exist except as an idea. People make up a company. These people have ideas and opinions about how the company should be run. Usually, a consensus view develops. Sometimes not. SONY is made up of people who can see that the company has two opposing interests: selling hardware which works well (makes consumers happy) with digital audio, and selling digital audio (which requires making consumers unhappy by preventing them from copying digital audio). These competing interests cannot be reconciled. SONY's shareholders should push to split up the company. That way, they can choose between more copying of digital audio and less copying of it.-- --my blog is at blog.russnelson.com | A computer without Python is Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | like a CPU without memory: 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 | it runs, but you can't do Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog | anything useful with it.
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