Archive: 2003-12-18
Criminals
Browsing through Clay Shirky’s article on demotic cryptography, “The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed”, one sentence caught my eye:
Beating My Head Against MS’s Wall
Unfortunately, I’m sometimes unable to avoid having to use Microsoft products. Like all right-thinking people, I naturally abhor Microsoft. It’s not for their convicted-monopolist practices so much as their boneheaded corporate stupidity and incurable Not-Invented-Here syndrome and the fact that, even with their unparalleled human and financial resources, they just can’t get the simplest things right.