Open-Source movement at the RIAA?
The RIAA have chosen Linux as their operating system, it’s ironic because Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) are renowned for being a totally anti-independent organization. They detest anything that involves competition or openness yet have moved to Linux, the world’s most used open source operating system!
The RIAA attempted to move their website to 2.2.3 Red Hat last week (www.riaa.com) but the move did not run too well and the site was down for over 5 hours.
I find it quite funny that when you click on the homepage it says “Welcome to RIAAâ€, this is the American copyright police, you’d swear you were entering France or something “Welcome to France†or “Welcome to Englandâ€, but oh no!
The RIAA are also moving their DNS to Mindshift Technologies in an unscheduled Endeavour, they are moving from smaller company (Tomorrow’s Solutions Today) whom they had been with for a number of years. A number of domains apart from the .com domain though have failed to be moved over to Mindshift, so it seems a few problems have been occurring over at the RIAA at the moment.
In all fairness to TST they have been doing a pretty swell job over the past number of years, the RIAA website has to be one the most attacked websites on the net, repulsed by many for obvious reasons!
It still leaves us with one question however, why are they moving from a company that had done such a good job? Probably because the sue frenzy RIAA found a problem with the provider however it would be much funnier if the hosting provider was kicking the RIAA’s butt onto the lawn for a chang
