Sunday, March 2, 2003

Toner Case: Ruling Favors Lexmark. A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction against a North Carolina company, prohibiting it from making or selling computer chips that allow generic toner cartridges to be used in Lexmark printers. [Wired News] No need to comment on that one, except the old lawyer joke about hundreds on the bottom of the sea ;-) 5:52:40 PM

Experts: Copyright law hurts technology. Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers, technologists and academics, but few can agree on the solution. [CNET News.com] Seems at least some people are getting it right, problem is, here in Europe everything takes a lot longer (EU states are trying to get a kind of DMCA into national legislation). Worse yet, the Eurocrats and politicians in general tend to ignore findings from abroad, they want to create high-paid working groups to come to the obvious conclusions, after five to ten years of plushy traveling, of course. 5:38:36 PM

To clarify the last entry, I'm fighting with emagic's Logic Audio on a DOS box, can't wait to switch to OS X (I'm trying to find the money for a 12" Powerbook). The software is great, making music on Windoze sucks! 5:31:21 PM

Long time no blog ;-). I still have to convince RADIO not to launch IE. 5:21:08 PM

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