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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Sunday, August 15, 2004

The Apple of forbidden knowledge

FT.com: "In the material world, when a razor manufacturer claims that a generic razor blade maker is 'stealing my customers' by making compatible blades, we simply laugh. The 'hacking' there consists of looking at the razor and manufacturing a blade that will fit. But when information about compatibility is inscribed in binary code and silicon circuits, rather than the moulded plastic of a razor cartridge, our moral intuitions are a little less confident. And all kinds of bad policy can flourish in that area of moral uncertainty. This leads us to the law. Surely Apple's legal claim is as baseless as their moral one? Probably, but it is a closer call than you would think."

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