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The Norwegian hacker who was arrested, and ultimately exonerated, for reverse-engineering DVD copy protection has taken a job with Michael Robertson's latest venture, a digital music company called MP3tunes. Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, began work on Monday for the San Diego company, Robertson said Wednesday in an interview.

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What was an important consideration, however, is the shared view that the technology entrepreneur and the hacker share on open-music standards, Robertson said. "I'm a huge believer of open standards," he said. "I want a world where you can listen to your music on any device whether it has a fruit logo or not, whether it has a Microsoft logo or not, and that's hopefully what we'll push the world toward at MP3tunes."

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Robertson is frequently involved in tweaking Micro$oft's nose. "Linspire" Linux used to be called "Lindows" which caused M$ to sue. M$ lost but kept filing suits in other jurisdictions to tie Robertson up in legal proceedings.

He also quietly offered a cash reward to anyone who could crack the M$ "Xbox" and install Linux on it.

[ 20 October 2005: Message edited by: radiorahim ]