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August 08, 2005
Princeton doesn't get it.
Engadget noted on Saturday that Princeton will be offering digital textbooks starting this fall - with a focus on the intensely onerous and user-hostile nature of the DRM involved. Princeton’s response this morning? A letter from Thomas Bartus of their Office of Communications telling them to take down the “protected image” of the Princeton school logo they posted with the story.
They don’t get it.
Not to say that it comes as any surprise, having worked 15 years in large universities (Such as UW, where they’re force-feeding Napster and Dell to the students). But still… Princeton - or the people making these decisions at Princeton - doesn’t get it.
Posted by jim at August 8, 2005 09:51 AM