Gates wades into music industry
MICROSOFT'S Grand Supremo, Sir William Gates III, has waded into the music industry for failing to make a decent stab at making money on digital music.
Speaking to the New York Times, Gates said that he was bewildered by the fact that the music industry was not making piles of dough.
Ironically one of the things that Gates believes might have stuffed up the music industry is its obsession with DRM. He said Microsoft’s cunning music strategy focuses on selling songs without copy-restriction software, unless it is forced too.
Gates said that music labels should push harder to sell all-you-can-eat subscriptions that let users download much more music that they keep as long as they continue paying.
Apple has declared such plans heretical to its religion, but Vole has backed a $15-a-month plan for its Zune operation.
Gates said that Microsoft is one of a handful of companies that have been negotiating with the music industry over a subscription-based program known as Total Music. However the scheme has been bogged down by problems from within the music industry.
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Well Bill, maybe you'd like to have a word with Steve over Vista and its overbearing, shoot-everything-that-moves DRM scheme ?
You know, just to let him know that YOU would never have done that.
Geez, I didn't realize that now you can post comments directly to the INQs columns. Hope this doesn't become as insane as the Cave. 
Nice addition though
so now its a full blown blog eh?. nice nice.

brace yourself for hordes of fanboyism and "im first" posts.

I hope it doesnt end like engadget.
The Kave isn't insane - it's just differently normal.

Anyway we serve a useful porpoise - would you want Farrell and Spinola wandering the streets?
"music that they keep as long as they continue paying"

How does he expect that to work without some kind of DRM for the music to stop working or disappear once you stop paying?
I'm as sane as spinola. Does anybody here want a free guitar?
He abandoned me in a music store that went belly up, so he could go play with his toy trains. 
And now he's turning the Inq into his private Facebook. What next: Second Life?