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Thursday, 10 February 2005 |
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No DRM in Mr. Robertson's neighborhood
Register - London,England,UK
Desktop Summit There is a shallowness to Southern California culture that can
make you question the authenticity of anything coming out of the place. The
boobs are fake. The faces are fake. The water is fake - pumped in from far away
reservoirs. The cities are filled with bland, repetitive strip malls loaded down
with chain restaurants not local cuisine. Half of the people aren't even real
people at all - they're actors.
This doesn't make So Cal a bad place. It just raises immediate questions about
someone like Michael Robertson of Linspire, MP3.com and SIPphone fame. Can you
trust the authenticity of this blond haired, laid back executive who was raised
in Los Angeles and does business in San Diego? Can you trust the motives of his
battles with the likes of Microsoft and the recording industry? Is this
altruism, capitalism, entrepreneurism or greed? We sat down this week here at
the Linspire-sponsored Desktop Summit to try and answer some of these questions
and to talk to Robertson about his latest venture - a DRM-free online music shop
called MP3tunes.
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