Re: Music downloads and linux
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 07/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:38:53 -0000
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In comp.os.linux.misc Robert M. Riches Jr. <spamtrap42@verizon.net> suggested:
> On 2004-07-30, Kamus of Kadizhar <yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:57:11 +0000, Jack Strangio wrote:
[..]
>>>> Or better yet, is there a music download service that works with linux?
[..]
>> I've been fighting with this all morning; I'm ready to shoot somebody at
>> Walmart.... (I understand the need for piracy prevention, but I don't
>> understand the bizarre need to lock out everyone but Windows users....)
> Walmart is selling music downloads that won't work on the
> Lindows/Windex/Linspire/whatever Linux systems they also
> sell? Hmmm... (Not meaning to imply that you are using one
> of _those_ systems.)
Sounds strange, but doesn't it make perfect sense if you sell
systems running "Lindows?" or alike, which, from what we have
heard here more then once, never used it, forces the user to run
as root all time? It somehow says, hell we have no clue at all
but then we are just a reseller...
> I would encourage you to complain. It probably won't do you
> any good, but _maybe_, just maybe, if they get enough
> complaints, it might possibly cause a slight shift in
> company stance. If we're lucky, vendors will eventually
> start to realize not everyone wants to march to the beat of
> the drum being played by that convicted company founded by
> Darth Gates.
Second that!
We have to let them know, that people buy someones hardware
exactly because it works well with Linux.
Quite often, high-end (server) hardware like SCSI hw RAID
controller are quite well supported, sometimes they have
features, like updating NVRAM on the card while running, that are
not available on other OS. Probably, as you can order Linux
server directly from most if not all major hardware vendors these
days. That doesn't seem to be true for Linux desktops?
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