You’ll need to ponder that question if you take up one of the world’s major marketing giants on an offer being announced today, in which Virgin Entertainment will “give” you an Internet appliance in return for your privacy.
Your data is a detailed portrait of your life, folks. Give it away if you like, but understand what you’re doing.
Microsoft and Internet Explorer Lock-In
The Wall Street Journal’s Interactive edition has yanked off the Web a report headlined “Will Microsoft Lose Right to Internet Explorer?”
“Under the proposal,” the story had said, “Microsoft would be forced to grant royalty-free licenses to the product, opening its secret underlying software code to customers and computer makers. “
This morning, when I linked to the story, I said I couldn’t see how this would help improve competition. I asked for readers to clue me in on how it might help.
Never mind…