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Comment Apple plays harder yet (Score 1) 691

by nicholasfrancis on Friday August 31, 2007 @03:32PM (#20428531) Attached to: NBC Universal Drops iTunes

After NBC said "nah, you can't have the shows after december", Apple basically said "fuck you, we'll stop right NOW..." http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/08/31itunes.h tml spoiler: no shows of this season running on iTunes. This is like a car where the engine... oh well... nevermind.

MS Four Points of Interoperability and Adobe 274

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 04, 2006 @05:10PM from the learning-experience dept.

Andy Updegrove writes "Recently, spokespersons for Microsoft's standards group have been promoting 'design, collaboration and licensing' as alternatives, rather than supplements to, open standards. There's an important difference between an open standard and any of these ad hoc arrangements among companies, however, and that is the fact that with a standard, everybody knows that they can get what everybody else can get, and on substantially the same terms. With a de facto standard, that's not the case - as Microsoft itself found out last week when Adobe refused to offer the same deal on saving files in PDF form that Apple and OpenOffice enjoy."

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