Zune spokesman: Jobs "irresponsible, or at the very least nave"

An article at today's New York Times allowed Jason Reindorp, Zune marketing director for Microsoft, to rebut Steve Job's open letter on DRM with some fairly harsh quotes. He calls Jobs' suggestion that the music industry might license their offerings without DRM, "irresponsible, or at the very least naïve...It's like he's on top of the mountain making pronouncements, while we're here on the ground working with the industry to make it happen..." Reindorp called Jobs a "master of the obvious", suggesting that DRM restrictions are already loosening within the music industry.

Once again, we are grateful to Microsoft spokesmen for letting us know how music sales should be properly done.