My last act as a Hungarian journalist was translating the speech against DRM @pluralistic gave at Microsoft. For free, obviously. By then I was well on the way of becoming a full time Drupal developer but I felt it important enough.
So I am heavily biased towards him. With that disclaimer out of the way https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/ is nothing short of brilliant.
@chx was that the one from the mid-2000s that started with "Yar"? I helped set that up -- I connected @pluralistic to the person organizing talks for Microsoft Research 😎
EDIT: and here's the link! I had misremembered, it actually starts
"Greetings fellow pirates! Arrrrr!"
@crowbriarhexe Microsoft Research had a lot of autonomy at the time and prided themselves on allowing critical viewpoints. Also it was still an open question about what to do about consumer DRM -- they released the first version of Zune without DRM. And I had written a BillG Thinkweek paper on "Why Microsoft should abandon DRM" and he had forwarded it on with "not sure I agree but we should think about this" (or something like that).
chx
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