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Posted by Joe Moore on 10/06/05 11:44
"~P~" <bmxtrix2005@cox.net> wrote:
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>Sony, they keep saying, is the root (kit) of all evil and a few poor
>judgement calls means that they are the devil.
A poor judgement call is when you miscalculate the market and price
your products incorrectly.
Evil is when you decide that your objectives are more important than
the rights of your customers and act on that decision.
Arrogance is when you think (and state publicly) that your customers
are too stupid to tell the difference.
>Microsoft loads buggy, known to fail software. The SELL you for hundreds of
>dollards KNOWN flawed software.
There is no other kind of software of any complexity.
> Sony, installed a lousy piece of security
>onto unsuspecting consumers PCs - once again lousy.
It was lousy because it was poorly written. But if it had
been perfectly written with no flaws, it would still have
been _evil_ because it was intended to hide itself from the
owner of the computer and from other software on the computer.
Why is it so hard for you to see the difference?
>What does the Root Kit have to do with a Disney title playing in your
>Panasonic Blu-ray player? Is Sony going to come along a screw that up for
>you somehow?
If a significant fraction of content suppliers set the
screw-your-customers flag, the value of the player is reduced. Sony,
by itself, supplies a significant fraction of the expected content.
> HD discs may not allow full HD output on component in the future.
>MAY - not WILL - but may.
And that's enough of a reason for me not to buy any HD disc player
until that significant fault is corrected.
> My projector is DVI, but is NOT HDCP compliant. So, if it isn't
>HD over component, I don't get HD. I live with that - so what's your
>problem.
Your money - your choice. If you don't care that the decision was made
to punish early adopters, and want to reward that decision with your
money, fine.
>Really, some people need to just get over it.
I have gotten over it. I've gotten over trusting Sony until Sony
gets a clue about who owns the products it sells and the products they
interact with.
>If you aren't buying an HD
>disc player at all then responding with half-truths and innuendo about ONE
>of the companies in one of the groups making HD disc players is juvenile.
>It really is. You are just complaining to complain instead of providing a
>single worthwhile fact about Blu-ray.
You may believe that the lack of trustworthiness of a company whose
promises are critical to the value of a product is irrelevant. I
don't.
>"Sony did this last year with a completely different product - so Blu-ray
>sucks."
No. More like "All proposed HD video players suck because one of the
major content providers (Sony) may be lying about its intentions.
>HUH? That makes no sense. It's drawing conclusions about a different
>product from a mistake by another product.
>
>If you don't trust Sony - and you don't want Sony products near your
>computer - then great - Go buy a Panasonic Blu-ray player, and run whatever
>movies you want on it. It won't be anywhere near your PC.
Every high def display device _is_a_computer_. A dvd player (high def
or not) _is_a_computer_. Trusting the operation of any computer to a
company (Sony) which believes that rootkitting is justified is like
having your taxes done by a corporation which includes identity theft
in its official business plan.
But more to the point: Buying a product (Blu-ray or otherwise) whose
value depends to any significant degree on the promises of a company
(Sony) that thinks rootkitting is justified is like buying a car
whose sticker includes the phrase "Prepared by the Deception
Department."
The rootkit fiasco told anyone paying attention that deceiving
customers to meet corporate objectives is OK with Sony
as long as it is done well.
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