From: mike 

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:49:46 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>Yet another Microsoft innovation - the flip-flop
>
>http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/04/microsoft_chang.html
>Microsoft has wheeled into hardcore spin mode in the wake of Apple and EMI's
>DRM announcement made on Monday. Jason Reindorp, head of marketing for Zune
>at Microsoft, told the UK Times, "We've been saying for a while that we are
>aware that consumers want to have unprotected content." Really? Then what
>about the comments Reindorp made in February to The New York Times after the
>publishing of Steve Jobs' no-DRM manifesto? Back then, Reindorp called Jobs'
>anti-DRM statements "irresponsible, or at the very least na‹ve."

How can you tell if Microsoft is lying?  ....



>[snip]
>
>Although many applauded Steve Jobs for his righteous no-DRM manifesto, few
>believed much would come of it.

When I posts Jobs' comments a few months back, I remember GlennM replied
that it was a hot topic among the industry execs at the time.


>Now that a heavyweight like EMI has hopped ...[snip]

 c/heavyweight/near bankrupt/


>[Jason] Reindorp[, head of marketing for Zune Microsoft]
>went on to say, "This does open things up a little bit. It potentially makes
>the competition more of a device-to-device or service-to-service basis, and
>will force the various services to really innovate."

Only problem is that Microsoft has not a clue how to innovate in this space
(or probably any other space).  I wonder whose intellictual property they
are going to steal in order to feign innovation?
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653

 /m

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