Re: iPod support in Linux

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:59:49 +0200
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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