[GRLUG] Itunes and France

[Bob Kline]

Right.  As the saying goes  "the thing about standards
is that there are so many of them."

Each company having its own "standard"  being a
proprietary approach of course.

   -Bob

On 7/1/06, Ron Lauzon <rlauzon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Kline wrote:

> > The only way to beat all this is with standards.  You
> > either have standards or you get monopolies.
> And companies (like Microsoft and Apple) who have business models based
> not on providing the best value, but rather on DRM and customer lock-in,
> want to either own these "standards" or cry foul when their proprietary
> standards become de facto standards and they are called to open them up.
>
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