Interesting article
Thursday, May 23, 2002 by Griffinme | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207975
Here is one part I thought showed the true arrogence of Hollywood:
Hollywood executives think they are getting the typical technology runaround. "We all know GM has a motor in its files that would get 60 miles a gallon," scoffs one of them. "I'm pretty sure Intel has something in its files that will solve our problems." This talk infuriates Apple's Jobs, who says his industry would also love to get this problem behind it: "To say this intractable technology problem is going to be solved by something in the back pockets of technology companies, and they are not sharing it, is unbelievable. This is an important issue, and it's not going to be solved by threatening rhetoric. It's going to be solved by a computer scientist who has an incredibly original idea. We just don't know who or when."
Here is the link to ad mentioned in the article.
http://wm.gateway.na-regional.speedera.net/wm.gateway.na-regional/SundownC.asf
"We are too lazy or stupid to figure out how to make it work for us so we want the goverment to step in and protect us." This is the kind of mindset that had Isaac Newton jailed for saying "God doesn't make boats float, physics does."
BTW: GM made a car that got close to 60mpg. It was called the GEO and they couldn't give them away. >
Here is one part I thought showed the true arrogence of Hollywood:
Hollywood executives think they are getting the typical technology runaround. "We all know GM has a motor in its files that would get 60 miles a gallon," scoffs one of them. "I'm pretty sure Intel has something in its files that will solve our problems." This talk infuriates Apple's Jobs, who says his industry would also love to get this problem behind it: "To say this intractable technology problem is going to be solved by something in the back pockets of technology companies, and they are not sharing it, is unbelievable. This is an important issue, and it's not going to be solved by threatening rhetoric. It's going to be solved by a computer scientist who has an incredibly original idea. We just don't know who or when."
Here is the link to ad mentioned in the article.
http://wm.gateway.na-regional.speedera.net/wm.gateway.na-regional/SundownC.asf
"We are too lazy or stupid to figure out how to make it work for us so we want the goverment to step in and protect us." This is the kind of mindset that had Isaac Newton jailed for saying "God doesn't make boats float, physics does."
BTW: GM made a car that got close to 60mpg. It was called the GEO and they couldn't give them away. >
DavidK
Reply #2 Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:58 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:58 PM
The real issue is the continuing assault on technology by private interests. The back-room meetings where decisions that restrict the world's access to electronic data are made by a small group of legislators and corporate interests. Not surprisingly such legislation traditionally seems to favor the interests of a small group of private concerns.
The entertainment industry would prefer that no technology to create your own recordings or share your work in a quality format with others would ever be available to the public. They spend enormous amounts of money and time lobbying for international controls on what recording technologies are capable of doing. The result of such short-sighted and self-serving legislation is almost always a supression of beneficial technology that could serve a broader public interest.
The entertainment industry would prefer that no technology to create your own recordings or share your work in a quality format with others would ever be available to the public. They spend enormous amounts of money and time lobbying for international controls on what recording technologies are capable of doing. The result of such short-sighted and self-serving legislation is almost always a supression of beneficial technology that could serve a broader public interest.
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Reply #1 Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:17 PM