Tim O’Reilly wonders if Microsoft is colluding against Google

Tim O’Reilly is sitting next to me. For the past hour he was typing furiously. So, I just visited his blog to read what he was writing.

He wrote, in a post titled OCA vs. Google Print Library Project?: “This PR positioning makes me think that the OCA, a worthwhile effort (to which O’Reilly has contributed content), is being hijacked by Yahoo! and Microsoft as a way of undermining Google.”

I leaned over and said “I wish we were that smart.” We both had a good laugh about that.

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  3. You can be. Just adopt the latest New-Agey techy lingo, mix and match key phrases and buzzwords, update the Esalen ’70s themes, recast the human potential movement into modern tech forms, throw in a Hero and a Devil, worship the transcendence of the Machine, toss random collective and participational half-cooked memes like so much bacon bits, stir, open-source microwave and enlightened-mind reheat, play up a higher religious consciousness and then magically conjur into something faintly passing for a sentence, work all into a paragraph and bingo — instant smartness.

  4. You can be. Just adopt the latest New-Agey techy lingo, mix and match key phrases and buzzwords, update the Esalen ’70s themes, recast the human potential movement into modern tech forms, throw in a Hero and a Devil, worship the transcendence of the Machine, toss random collective and participational half-cooked memes like so much bacon bits, stir, open-source microwave and enlightened-mind reheat, play up a higher religious consciousness and then magically conjur into something faintly passing for a sentence, work all into a paragraph and bingo — instant smartness.

  5. Here’s the thing, when an idea’s time comes somebody will do it. If you think people at Microsoft haven’t been thinking about ways to get more physical media digital for a long time then you under estimate MS. Did Google get a beta out first, yes. But Google is the wrong man for the job. Google wants to make as much content available as possible as quickly as possible without due regard for the content owners rights. Dealing with publishing, music, and movie companies when it comes to digital content is a touchy subject. Microsoft has demonstrated with their approach to these problems (see: the HD DVD secure copy issue) that they want a solution that works for everybody, that meets consumers needs, and is fiscally sustainable for content providers.

    -Paul

  6. Here’s the thing, when an idea’s time comes somebody will do it. If you think people at Microsoft haven’t been thinking about ways to get more physical media digital for a long time then you under estimate MS. Did Google get a beta out first, yes. But Google is the wrong man for the job. Google wants to make as much content available as possible as quickly as possible without due regard for the content owners rights. Dealing with publishing, music, and movie companies when it comes to digital content is a touchy subject. Microsoft has demonstrated with their approach to these problems (see: the HD DVD secure copy issue) that they want a solution that works for everybody, that meets consumers needs, and is fiscally sustainable for content providers.

    -Paul