Now this is interestink.

[kickaha]

Steve Jobs posts an open letter to, well, everyone, on music and DRM. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

And the general reaction on slashdot is... positive? What crazy bizarro world is this?!?

I love it.

Comments

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Jobs has always been leery (at best) of licensing his tech. He seems to have a pathological fear of giving up control of anything. It's why the PC won out over the Apple architecture--anybody could always build to the PC platform, but for, well, ever, nobody but Apple could build an Apple. Competition and copious supply made the PC a no-brainer for the accountants.

(It's also a big reason why the PC platform has historically been buggier than the Apple platform--and why the Apple platform is going to get buggier in the future--but that's another rant.)

So it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't a pitch to license FairPlay.

It also doesn't surprise me that slashdot is knee-jerking. Why does it surprise you? :)