On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:19:28 -1000 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/29/2013 09:28 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > Sony became sort of evil when it turned from an (excellent) > > equipment manufacturer into a media multinational, with > > things like the CD rootkit and SACD as the result. > > The only part of Sony making money is its insurance division. The > equipment and media divisions are both running losses. "Ha ha!" - Nelson Muntz I have been thinking about other Sony gear I've had - one of the best monitors I ever had was a big Trinitron monitor on a Sun workstation. Absolutely stunning graphics back in the early 80s. It's too bad that their ham-fisted attempts at customer control (along with the standard music industry panic over losing the traditional distribution model) cause a lot of people to choose other companies to do business with. "I said, 'Ha ha!'" - Nelson Muntz -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user