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Rick Falkvinge responds to the European Commission about the inadvisability of mixing DRM and law (in English, despite the preamble in Swedish, even though he is the “founder and leader of the Pirate Party movement and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party”).

[Via Waffle.]

Now, after class action lawsuits regarding the iPhone’s tie to AT&T, I totally wish I’d sued PalmOne and Sprint about tying the Treo 650 to the Sprint CDMA network.

I wanted it on Verizon Wireless, but it didn’t arrive until almost a year later, in May 2005! During that time, I must have read everything about hacking the Sprint version to run on VZW. The sheer nerve of these companies, to make me waste my time like that! I’m sure many others would have joined with my righteous crusade!

Well, after all the work and preparations for lots of software development and information technology organizations, I’d like to wish everyone a happy daylight-saving time change in 2007. Overnight, we spring forward. Hopefully, it’s going to be a non-event …

Here’s a tip o’ the hat to Congress and the president, without whom this exciting event could not have happened!

The Global Geek Podcast has it in writing from Cupertino: “Apple Does Not Licence the Term ‘Podcast.’” So says a scanned letter they received from the Apple Trademark Department. Now, can we all end the insanity around “netcast” and other alternative terms? Or, we could continue to dilute our language into uselessness. Whatever.

[Via iLounge.]