Anthony Frausto

Lexington, MA

Architect

I find it incredulous and hypocritical that companies like Microsoft would actually stand for government intervention of the DRM battle. I hope what they showed up for was to tell the government to stay out of it and let the market decide. Lord knows that if Gates & Co. were the leader with DRM -- and not Apple -- they would be hell bent on letting the government force down a monopoly on their digital music dominance.

And why should the government be concerned with this to begin with? How about forcing interopability with technologies that affect businesses and would actually benefit entire industries. Take Autodesk's lock on their proprietary DWG CAD file format, a de facto industry standard that everyone else has to collectively reverse engineer to provide a level of interopability. If the US Government wants to be of some good, focus an effort on DWG and its lock on a $3.2 billion a year design/construction industry.