Hadron Quark wrote:
> "Larry Qualig" <lqualig@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> Liberating iPods in Cambridge
> >>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | During the event, dubbed iRony, users were walked through the
> >> | process of installing flexible and featureful free/open source
> >> | software firmware -- without DRM -- onto their digital audio players.
> >> |
> >> | [...]
> >> |
> >> | Organizers set up laptops running Ubuntu GNU/Linux, Mac OS X,
> >> | and Windows XP at the center of the room. iPod users brought
> >> | their players to experienced users, who would determine the
> >> | generation of the iPod and the current partition format, and
> >> | inquire about the user's needs. Together they would decide on
> >> | a firmware (RockBox, iPodLinux, or both) and walk through the
> >> | process of installation. Meanwhile, others looked on to watch
> >> | the process and learn how it was done. RockBox was installed
> >> | on the majority of the iPods with great success.
> >> `----
> >>
> >> http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/31/2146245&from=rss
> >
> >
> > Perhaps it's time that you GROW UP and stop being a pathetic little
> > liar with your faux "News" titles. Absolutely nothing was converted to
> > Linux "En Masse" but you already knew that.
> >
> >
> > <quote>
> > With nearly 70 million iPods and more than a billion iTunes songs
> > sold...
> >
> > A definitive tally of iPods liberated proved evasive, but it was more
> > than 40.
> > </quote>
> >
> >
> > For the sake of argument I'll assume that the 40 figure is off by an
> > order of magnitude. Let's say that a whopping '400' iPods were
> > converted.
> >
> > Wow... that's a whole 0.0000571% percent of iPods that were converted.
> > Effectively zero.
> >
>
> I made the mistake of believing the screenshots and the advocacy for
> Linux running on an ipaq 2750. Painful isnt the word. Only after
> shagging up my entire machine did the smallprint become largeprint - you
> know with things like "light doesnt work", "save doesnt work", "sync
> works after doing <insert 200 bash lines>" "input crashes at random
> times" etc etc etc. Another half assed discontinued project from what I
> can gather.
The overwhelming majority of people who buy an iPod are VERY happy with
them. Apple typically puts a great deal of effort and thought into
their user interfaces and making the software/device very
people-friendly.
Most iPod owners don't give a rats ass about DRM either. Apple and
iTunes is very fair with their policies and the majority of iPod users
aren't even aware that DRM is being used... let alone understand what
it is. (Just like most people who own DVD players don't realize that
the movies they watch are encrypted.) Few iPod owners are going to
risk 'bricking' their iPod to get a lesser UI. The iPod is a
overwhelming success the way it is.
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