On 07/30/2013 02:30 PM, Joe Hartley wrote: > 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 > Sony, the Monsanto of the media world? Alex. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user