Just one of those days
Posted By matt on November 26, 2003
Vanilla Sky is one of those very, very strange movies.
So, a bunch of folks were headed out to the bar today. I went with them, but there was this person whose company I dislike who went with them as well. So, I left and went home.
There's been a lot of news in the past week or so:
Best Buy is getting sued because they are trying to use the DMCA to quash people publishing Black Friday sale prices.
SCO may sue Google next. Google uses about 10,000 Linux machines and SCO says that people should pay them $700 for each machine. This, of course, is about $7 million.
a href=”http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/24/227202&mode=flat&tid=106&tid=185&tid=187&tid=88“>This paper explains it pretty well in 4 pages.
The MPAA and RIAA are seeking a permanent Anti-Trust exemption. So much for price-fixing lawsuits and all that crap.
Additionally, several indie labels are threatening to sue the RIAA unless the RAA removes them from its members list. Apparently, their names got on the RIAA's member list without them actually becoming members. Since many people are boycotting the RIAA, their business is being affected.
Also, the MPAA has found a new way to fight P2P – child pornography. They're lobbying for strong anti-peer to peer measures to fight “intellectual property infringement and child pornography”. Right, like they have anything in common.
Novell, RedHat, and Sun are committing to a Linux desktop
Oh, and for the folks who like Knoppix (it's a linux distro that boots from a CD), you can install it to your hard disk which is pretty nifty.
Yep, Vanilly Sky was a strange movie. The bit about his memorial – the man says that “he was missed”. Would I be? I wonder. It's what I always liked about It's a Wonderful Life.
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