Monday December 15, 2003
“So how did you come up with CGCGBE?”
“I kept playing around with different tunings until I found one I could work with.”
There’s always been a sense of experimentation and difference with Devin Townsend. Whether the enfant terrible of metal ever intended that is unclear, but from the moment he stepped onstage as Steve Vai’s vocalist in 1993 and stole the audience’s attention from the virtuoso, he has always been one to watch. Besides possessing a quite astonishing set of vocal pipes, his guitar chops are none too shabby either and his self-produced albums have a...
“Open Source is an intellectual property destroyer. I can’t imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual property business.” So said Jim Allchin, Microsoft's Windows operating system chief as part of a statement on Feb 14 that also intimated that such freely distributed software was also a threat to research and development and innovation.
Whether this blast at hackers and casual coders worldwide is indicative of his deeprooted beliefs or just prompted by the imminent announcement that Microsoft was about to announce a US$135 million investment in Corel, a company that recently cast...