From boingboing
An ISP has decided to ban routing to the RIAA’s IP block from its network, on the grounds that the RIAA will attempt to hack its customers’ computers.
Due to the nature of this matter and RIAA’s previous history, we feel the RIAA will abuse software vulerabilities in a client’s browser after the browser [...]
From: boingboing
By default, Windows Media Player encodes your music collection using your machine’s unique key, so that you can’t share, loan or give away the tracks you rip to your machine. What that means is, if you have some file-system or OS corruption and reinstall from scratch, then restore your music collection, it will be [...]
From futurepower.com:
Few people have the technical background to understand fully the advantages and disadvantages of software as complex as an operating system or office software. Without fundamental information, it is difficult for non-professionals to understand the advice of professionals.
The fact that Windows XP makes your computer dependent on Microsoft computers is bad not only because [...]
You might be entitled to a refund for Microsoft Windows and any other related OEM software that may also be included if you have installed Linux, a BSD, BeOS, OS/2, Solaris, NetWare, Windows NT, or another OS on a machine which came preloaded with MS-Windows.
Visit: Windows Refund Center Home Page
Imagine a truly open market for computer software: one in which there were many interoperating products, truly competing on their merits rather than upon their vendor’s ability to lock other products out of the market. Prices would be lower, quality higher, and we’d have a transition to a customer-centric view of the software business, away [...]