[OT] Re: iPod support in Linux

[Travis Smith]

An people always ask when they see the sansa why I didn't buy an ipod. :)

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 20:05 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> > 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 [...]
>
> I didn't see such am implication, but that's between you two :)
> I just saw a pretty matter-of-factly statement (if, IMHO understandably,
> a bit irate) that supporting the companies who hamper interoperability
> will just lead to more of this nonsense. Hard to argue with that.
>
> > [...] 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.
>
> This is very shortsighted (not to speak of selfish). Are you aware that,
> e.g., many of the linux wifi drivers actually came from the BSDs, who
> were forced to develop them because they couldn't use the binary blobs?
>
> If everyone doesn't care, nobody has support for anything.
>
> > I'd imagine that someone that does would go with a BSD licensed OS,
> > given the greater degrees of freedom for the user
>
> I assume you compare the BSD license to the GPL. However, the user has
> the same rights with both licenses. The GPL states specifically that use
> is outside of the scope of the license.
>
> The only difference is for developers who want to distribute code they
> didn't write.
>
> > and the specified aims of OpenBSD.
>
> You mean like "[...] our efforts emphasize portability, standardization,
> correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography."???
>
> > 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.
>
> I am sure you must be pleased that Apple invested your money wisely into
> more restrictions.
>
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, like only EVERY player that simply supports the USB mass storage
> device protocol. Hard to find, indeed.
>
>
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