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Tim O'Reilly Interview

Posted by michael on from the talking-head dept.

s4 news machine writes "The UK webcaster stage4 has published a lengthy interview with Tim O'Reilly in which he talks about why DRM will fail, Macromedia Central and the rise of webservices, and that Microsoft should have been broken up."

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  1. Still waiting... by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Funny

    So when will we see /. Hacks ???

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    1. Re:Still waiting... by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny
      There IS an ORA book on running weblogs with SLASH (and no, the cover animal is not a goat).

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    2. Re:Still waiting... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 3, Funny

      Man, that must be the only time a post with a direct link to goatse.cx got modded up.

      You, sir, are a genius. I take my hat off to you.

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  2. Page 24, third paragraph, 2nd word? by GreenCrackBaby · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's baffling to me that the content industries don't look at the experience of the software industry in the 80's, when copy protection on software was widely tried, and just as widely rejected by consumers.

    I can see it now....

    Clippy: "I see you are trying to play that new Brittany Spears CD! Please turn to page 12 of the CD insert, 3rd paragraph down, and tell me what the 3rd word is before I'll let you play it"

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    1. Re:Page 24, third paragraph, 2nd word? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Thanks for reminding me of the reason I spent so much hard-earned cash photocopying game manuals in the early nineties.

    2. Re:Page 24, third paragraph, 2nd word? by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 4, Funny
      Except these days it would be more like...

      Clippy: "I see you're trying to play the new Brittany Spears CD! Please look in to the retinal scanner, and place your thumb into the DNA Sampler so that the RIAA can verify that you have been authorized for a 'One Time Listening License' for the price of $19.99.

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    3. Re:Page 24, third paragraph, 2nd word? by tbradshaw · · Score: 2, Funny

      boob

  3. Re:Uh? by Feztaa · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, you're thinking of AT&T. Microsoft's punishment was that they weren't allowed to break the law anymore.

    Not that it stopped them, unfortunately.

  4. again? geesh... by 0x12d3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The guy could publish a volume on his slashdot interviews alone.

  5. Re:Microsoft shouldn't have been broken up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS isn't near breaking up anyway, in fact they're getting bigger and diversifying!

    "Would you like a fries license with that"

  6. Re:DRM will effect the common users regardless by byolinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Excuse me, are you saying that 12:00 doohickey does something?

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  7. Re:DRM viability by Cyno · · Score: 4, Funny

    dvd's are vastly more copy-protected than vhs, and they were adopted - for very good reasons

    Yeah, they're easier to copy.

  8. Re:Whos Tim O'Reilly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    This is slashdot. Most janitors/posters/etc. can't write a coherent paragraph. If all Mr O'Reilly did was run the HOWTO through the MS Word spell checker, it would be an improvement.


    PS - the cover animals are 'based on' public domain lithographs from the 1800s.

  9. "One ring to rule them all" OS by brandido · · Score: 1, Funny
    I liked how O'Reilly managed to compare Microsoft to Mordor and Mill Gates to Sauron with a rather deft comment:
    The question is what kind of operating system it will be -- a "one ring to rule them all" OS like Windows, or a "small pieces loosely joined" OS like Linux and the existing suite of internet and web technologies.
    It is an accurate representation, as Windows does provide a more rigid framework, yet allows for so many more interpretations!
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  10. not that lengthy by geekd · · Score: 4, Funny

    a lengthy interview

    It was short to medium length. The submitter must have a short attention span. Damn kids these days.

    When I was a kids we had to read "War & Peace" in 3 hours, uphill, both ways!

  11. Re:Uh? by vsprintf · · Score: 2, Funny

    So everybody else is allowed to break the law ?

    Everyone else with $40 Billion is allowed to break the law. There are standards, you know -- can't have just any old riffraff admitted to the club.