Business Week has a good interview with James Gosling, aka "The Man Who Brewed Up Java." Gosling thinks copy protection and other crippleware schemes in consumer electronics are bad ideas.
Q: What's your personal pet peeve that you think Java might help fix in the future?
A: Just getting my home-entertainment system straight. We've got all of these technologies that are supposed to move media around our homes, but it's this dog's breakfast of agendas [from various suppliers] that makes things just impossible.
"The MPAA has been shooting down anyone who wants to do anything sensible, forcing people like TiVo (TIVO ) to do all kinds of nonsensical things [like making it impossible to skip commercials]. I'd like to have more systems in my house far more open. I'd love to be able to get my car and house talking to each other, or have my telephones and other gear talking to each other, so the frigging CD player or the TV pauses when I answer a phone call.
