The truth is out there

Now we know AO is actually just a DRM vehicle for the record companies in disguise. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Why?

I'd say it was simple... it's a nice clearcut case against a small company which will enable them to set some legal precedent.

When it comes to a fight against a larger entity down the line, that precedent may carry some weight. And if it teaches those startups to play fair then that is by no means a bad thing.

Interesting purchase

To me this is one of the most interesting purchases of the year.

It brings relative veteran VMWare, which is starting to make money out of the presently monopolised VM market, against Microsoft, which does't care about making money out of VM per se (they'd rather have the Windows licenses thank you very much), against Citrix, who now have an immature but potentially very capable product.

For the immediate future Citrix must be willing to cash in (at best) on the potentially lucrative SME VM marketplace where VMWare are relatively weak, whilst they plough money into R&D for the enterprise level developments.

Microsoft will be starting to understand what they have to do to compete in the marketplace with the release of Longhorn SP1 in order to avert some of the takeup of heterogeneous VM technologies. What, run Linux _and_ Windows on one server?

VMWare in the meantime will be starting to realise that they need to strengthen their current foundations for a fight in around 12 months time as the other players attempt to gain some market share.

I can't predict the outcome but the game is on.

The real point...

... is that Lester hasn't removed these comments. I think there are quite a few reporters (even around here) that would have done so.

I like to think that self-censorship is the only recourse for the modern generation. Don't want to read it... don't.

Which is presumably why these comments remain?