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1. Comment - Windows Source Code Opened to More

   (Mar 22, 2005 - 1:32 PM)

   Oh and comparing open source to data files which have royalties attached (music files in your example) isn't even a logical comparisson!

2. Comment - Windows Source Code Opened to More

   (Mar 22, 2005 - 1:30 PM)

   Erm, you must live in a metal box on the moon to think that closing Windows source makes it hard(er) to copy and distribute. The underground market is already saturated with pirate copies of Windows - making it open source wouldn't change that in the slightest.
   
   I'm not even going to get into the fact that Novell make a fortune from Linux and that's completely open source.

3. Comment - DVD Copy Protection Strengthened

   (Feb 15, 2005 - 5:56 PM)

   Yeah, I expect downloading would be limited to the truely poor or those who want to test drive. I have notice dowloading books as ebooks to read a few chapters before buying it has become popular. And most of the people I know who have done this have either bought the book the next day or not bothered reading it..

4. Comment - ICQ, Others Back New U3 USB Standard

   (Jan 7, 2005 - 6:21 PM)

   I think what most people are forgetting is that most (if not all) removeable storage devices fail after a few million read/write ops. This may seem like a large amount, but there are a lot of applications which dont cache data in RAM and instead simply read/write from storage as neccesary.
   
   A standard which reads the required files and caches them ALL in RAM or creates a temporary copy on HDD which is securely erased (to DOD standards) after use would eliminate this problem.