Work on my client’s app was interrupted by a desparate call from an old friend. They needed to deliver a version of IE that acted like the kiosk version, but would display the taskbar. Today. Took four hours, mainly fighting with InstallShield and trying to nail him down on specs. In FoxPro, of course.
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Microsoft’s Palladium is the latest proposal in digital rights management. As an author, I welcome the ability to control the distribution of my document, but as a consumer, I am strongly opposed to anything that will restrict my ability to copy, merge, mix or modify software, paper, tape, CDs or bits. This is an infringement on my ability to do my job. “Personal use” is a principle and not a Constitutional Right, and it is being eroded at an alarming rate. Palladium is a heavy metal poison, a carcinogin, an element, the name of many theaters, a role-playing game and the protective statue that guarded Troy. Microsoft protected Trojans? It does make you wonder. Read more about Palladium here:
Stephen Levy writes for MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp
Slashdot goes crazy: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/27/125227.shtml?tid=109
More follow-up (cross-links from Slashdot):
Once again used the marvelous and simple Web Services within Visual FoxPro to post and then update an entry on http://www.foxcentral.net. It seems that the Boston Area FoxPro Users Group has moved to http://www.bostonusersgroup.com/vfpboston.
— TWikiGuest – 24 Jun 2002