iPod support in Linux

[Avi Greenbury]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:59:49 +0200
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> I dunno why Jamie and you are pissed about Pastor JW's reply, he's
> totally correct. If you want gear to work seamlessly together, stop
> buying stuff from companies who prefer to cause trouble for their
> customers if this gives them a firmer grip at the market.
>

I'm not pissed at his reply so much as at the implication that if I use Linux I must have some vendetta against companies who don't look towards complete total integration. Yes, I prefer things that work with everything - it's partly what drew me to debian in the first place - but I don't feel strongly enough about it to turn down something that does the job exactly as well as I want it to because it wouldn't work on someone else's system. I'd imagine that someone that does would go with a BSD licensed OS, given the greater degrees of freedom for the user, and the specified aims of OpenBSD.

I bought my iPod because it works so well with Linux. I plug it in to Amarok and they talk to each other. When I bought it, there was little else of a similar capacity that would work like that. Now that this has changed, if I wanted to replace it, I'd have to look for something else that does work easily with Linux.

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Avi Greenbury