amazing car-crash interview attempting to justify DRM from Microsoft : interview with MS UK’s Head Of Mobile attempting, and failing, to justify their DRM policy. Q: ‘If I buy these songs on your service – and they’re locked to my phone – what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months’ time?’ A: ‘Well, I think you know the answer to that.’
(tags: omgwtfbbq microsoft funny drm fail hugh-griffiths interviews mp3 music mobile)Ryanair’s new €30 surcharge for >1 item of hand luggage : also applies to laptops. they truly are the most customer-hostile company in the world
(tags: ryanair wankers flight airlines travel laptops customer-service consumer surcharges)Monty leaving Sun : he resigned due to the botched MySQL 5.1 release, and slowness in Sun’s actions to ‘fix our community and development problems’. regardless, he says they’re parting on good terms. His new company, Monty Program Ab, will be run by http://zak.greant.com/hacking-business-models — cool
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