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Microsoft officially entering the anti-virus industry means the incumbent anti-virus vendors will have to evolve, or die.

Think about it, folks! The AV industry has stagnated over eighteen years because of their reliance on the Addictive Update Model. AV software hasn't significantly advanced in all of this time because users won't buy better products.

A Microsoft anti-virus product is going to penetrate the AV market like Internet Explorer did. It'll be bundled with later versions of Microsoft operating systems, making current AV software obsolete. AV vendors will finally have to release better AV products - products that can catch viruses before the fact - just to stay competitive.

If the incumbent AV vendors respond to this threat to their bottom line, AV security will dramatically improve. About time, too.

There's the one where France said you can't internationally auction NAZI memorobilia. And there's more about them going after other neo-Nazi websites. They went after their own ISPs in the 1990s. And then there's Toubon Law which dictates what materials MUST be written in French and what is allowed to be written in other languages.

Every country has their problems, but France's problem seems to be that they don't really understand that they're living in an international world (regardless of how much they might trumpet that belief to other countries). It's time for them to stop attempting to enforce silly standards on other countries, and start allowing their own people to communicate without interference with the outside world, in whatever manner (or language) they see fit.

PS. I know nothing about France.

easyCinema is being given the bird by Hollywood who will not allow it to show it's high cost movies for a low price for fear that it will create a domino effect in the future

Who in Hollywood will not allow it? Certainly this isn't a coordinated effort, as that would be collusion and that'd be illegal per US antitrust.

Even sending little "smoke signals" can get one in trouble, such as investigations kicked off by the recent $10 airline rate increase which has attracted DoJ interest again.

If this is indeed true, it would sound as if Hillary Rosen might have a cellmate to keep her company.

*scoove*

I don't see where AC asserts that Sklyarov was interested in "helping grandma read." He's just drawing an extreme contrast between the way DS's actions were portrayed and one that would clearly not have flown. It seems pretty clear that DS' actions fall somewhere in the vast middle of AC's spectrum.