Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature

An anonymous reader writes "Radio stations are upset because Microsoft is cloning their playlists -- creating sounds-alike internet radio stations without the commercials."

Comments

Re:Licensing?

[ejdmoo]

What about OO.org that has a program called writer and the entire project has the same name as their product with "open" in front? It's a look a like, not a copy. I'm not saying MS is hugely innovative with Office, but OO.org is certainly marketed as an direct alternative to Microsoft's product.

Re:We need to a resist a temptation to take sides

[cheese_wallet]

"People love to act like the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

worked in WWII.

Re:Radio Stations Playing the same stuff

[Sj0]

On a complete and utter tangent from what you said, remember this above all: The right wing isn't nessessarily that right wing.

Want proof? Trying to get a constitutional ammendment so you can supress a group is unprecidented. Going to war against a petty dictator who hasn't actually attacked anyone in the past 10 years is unprecidented. Think about that word, unprecidented(odds are I'm misspelling it. Oh well, it's like 6AM, and I haven't finished my coffee) then what the right wing traditionally stands for. I'd say the current "right wing" is just a group of closet liberals who think that the fact that they openly hate people makes their views "traditional right wing". Somehow, that ends up driving people who believe in small government, fiscal responsibility, maintaining liberties which have been availiable since the inception of the country and maintaining a strong military without actually using it to the "left", in spite of the fact that these ideas are as old as dirt. :)