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10.4.5 404 Not Found

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Mark Gibbs

2007: The Year of Being Outraged?

Backspin  By Mark Gibbs, Network World, 01/05/07

The dawn of a new year should be a time of reflection, of weighing what happened in the last year and planning to make the next 12 months better. I have reflected on the happenings of last year and I would sum up 2006 as The Year of Not Enough Outrage.

We started 2006 with the Sony BMG Music Entertainment digital rights management (DRM) fiasco still going strong. In late 2005 it was discovered Sony had intentionally installed rootkit software on PCs when users tried to play certain Sony-produced CDs under Windows.

By the start of 2006 we knew that more than 500,000 networks had been infected, including a number of U.S. military networks. We also knew hackers had created malware that could exploit the naïve and poorly written Sony rootkit code. Sony had made a huge problem for us.

The obvious conclusion was that the Sony DRM fiasco was extremely serious - more so than most people realized considering that Sony compromised the integrity of tens of thousands of PCs and thousands of networks. But did the government get involved? No. This was a big company with big lawyers and who in the civil service wants to represent the people when they'll probably just get their head handed back to them.

The burden of prosecution rested on civil suits, several of which have resulted in fines of a scant few million dollars while others won't be settled until 2008.

Then Sony ended the year with another fiasco as laptop batteries exploded or melted down. The faulty batteries were simply recalled (you have to wonder how long until laptops and other lithium-ion battery-powered devices are banned from air travel) and you have to admire Sony for skillfully avoiding repercussions that would kill off most other vendors. But were we outraged? What do you think?

Although I have highlighted two cases involving Sony I'd hate to have you think it's the only company that got away with bad deeds. Bad behavior and actions, the kind that should provoke outrage, is endemic in our industry.

Are we outraged over the recent Microsoft/Novell deal? Not nearly enough. The repercussions of this arrangement are potentially profound for the open source movement, but only a handful of people care.

I suggest we prepare to be outraged. 2007 is underway and the arrogances, intransigencies, bad behavior, unpunished or poorly punished illegal acts, self-serving spin, and manipulations that we saw in 2006 aren't going to stop unless we show we aren't going to take it any more.

Express your outrage to backspin@gibbs.com.

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