July 16, 2005
hey robert, what’s the deal with longhorn opm?
This is the first time I have heard of this OPM stuff and I need to do more research before I truly believe that Microsoft is really going to do something this dumb, but there it is.
All the great RSS stuff that is coming in Longhorn won’t help me a bit because if I have to live with this, I won’t be using Longhorn.
Robert, do you know anything about this?
[UPDATE:] Turns out Robert has already written about it here. [Thanks to Gabe for the tip-off].
And in the comments below Robert says:
It sounds lame to me too, but then it’s not the first time we [i.e. Microsoft] have done DRM.
Well, he wrote about this yesterday: http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/07/15.html#a10643
He kind of hints at writing more later…
Blogging is TOO easy!
Or so Chris Pirillo thinks.
I think he might be right … there are good blogs but there is also a huge expanse of wasteland out there (same applies to the web as a whole).
However, first prize for acute observation has to go to Hugh MaCle…
What Gabe said.
It sounds lame to me too, but then it’s not the first time we’ve done DRM.