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France is Silly

France is quite the unfortunate place to live. They are the butt of countless jokes when it comes to military victories. Their country is falling into disorder. They made everyone in the EU hate them even more because of that Constitution thing. And now, they’re going to try and ban open-source.

From the mighty bastion of software freedom that is Slashdot:

“According to the Free Software Foundation of France the French Department of Culture is telling free (as in speech) software providers that ‘You will be required to change your licenses … You shall stop publishing free software,’ and warn they are ready ‘to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code.’

From the looks of it, it seems like France is adamant about protecting its culture and one way to do this is the stop the virus that is open source software. Only American corporations can save the future of France’s culture now!

Sowned!y

Sony must be kicking themselves in the pants really hard again. Sure they’ve got the PlayStation, invented the Walkman, and make really cool TVs, but how many times have they screwed up now? Betamax? MiniDisc?

The RIAA must be steaming pissed at them too. People were happily taking in the DRM and it was quite respectable. Heck, they even got everyone worried over pirates destroying our culture. And then Sony screws up and everyone hates not only Sony, but are now swearing off any music with DRM in it.

According to the good sir, Michael Geist, Sony’s screwup is not only hurting those artists with the evil rootkits on them, but all of Sony’s artists. In fact, he argues, that they are hurting all artists, regardless of their label.

It makes sense, considering the average person doesn’t know what a rootkit is until they heard about this and now they’re not taking any chances. It was hard enough not getting any viruses from the Internet, but now they come on CDs?

lol 360

If there’s something that can lower the perception of gaming by the public even more than GTA: San Andreas, it’s gotta be the Xbox 360. With the media orgy that spawned in the wake of the launch last Tuesday, it seems that all sorts of nongamers are aware of the flaws of the magic white box. Even my dad knew it was a crappy console and that it was out of stock until something like 2112.

And then there are the stories of crashes and overheating. I’m honestly surprised there’s no familiar Blue Screen of Death. And of course, the launch itself, generating riots and shootings and muggings, but not for Core Systems, because everyone knows the Core System is crap. Even my chem teacher knows that it’s going for $5000 on eBay and that the Core System is crap.

Oh, and since it’s a console (as many of the zealots forget), games should probably be mentioned. I guess if you like playing titles that are already on other consoles and PC it’ll be fine. Except Perfect Dark Zero, which I hear is best played in the dark. During a power outage.

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It seems we end on a theme: that of technology. Not the most random thing, but certainly unexpected. Or maybe not considering that is what occupies much space in my cerebral space. I hope we all look forward to the next session of this excercise in gobbledygooky goodness.