Posts Tagged ‘open source’

As in other states, Minnesota courts have started to find that defendants charged with driving under the influence have the right to confront their accuser–in these cases, a breathalyzer. But CMI, the Kentucky firm that makes the breathalyzer unit used in Minnesota, has long refused, resulting in overturned convictions, reinstated licenses, and a lot of [...]

From PC World Canada, 10 terrible trends in consumer technology:

10. Closed source technology
9. Over-promising and under-delivering
8. Fanboys
7. Region encoding
6. Licensing Fees
5. Format wars
4. Proprietary File Formats
3. Annoying web ads
2. High cost of wireless data plans
1. DRM