Damien

I agree, In the last year or so this articles have become weird. I remember he did one writing about how the internet was missing a 'social place'. Given that the latest generation of internet start-ups seem to focus on social networking such as Facebook and old sites such as this are still going strong and show no signs of slowdown it was a very bizarre article to write. Of course, he never defined exactly what he meant by 'social place'.

The 'Steve Jobs' article was flawed in the first place, it's common industry knowledge that Apple were initially against DRM when they were trying to get record companies to commit to the store, but the record companies insisted. Credit to him for admitting he got to wrong after some songs became DRM free on iTunes but he could have researched his article more before making such statements in the first place!

Also, his idea that developers should face more software liability is a joke. While it is a nice idea from the point of view of the consumer, it is unfair to expect companys like Microsoft to have to pay out to someone should a windows bug corrupt or damage some software. Even more of the nightmare for independent developers to suddenly have to face lawsuits because their software crashed and they lost work.

The rest of the time he just talks about meanless nonsense. Far too abstract from the reality of the net at the moment to pay any attention too. It's a shame, he used to be a good read