Linspire Founder on Linux, iPod
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| Entrepreneur Michael Robertson is using open standards to take on
| Microsoft, Apple, and the telecommunications industry.
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| Is Michael Robertson afraid of anything? The entrepreneur has a made a
| career--and a fortune--playing rough with giants. Now, though, he's turning
| up the volume: predicting an end to Apple?s hold on digital music,
| shaking up the Linux community by looking to marry open source smarts
| with proprietary know how, and talking trash about Microsoft's new Zune.
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| Robertson: The Zune is going to be stillborn, I think it's going to be a
| disaster and I think it's not going to be the open Wi-Fi device that
| would really be able to fundamentally challenge, Apple's iPod by taking
| music to the next level. That next level is, I'm listening to music that
| I like, I should click one button on a web site, it should immediately be
| on my player. That's what should happen.
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| It's not going to happen with the Zune, it's going to be a closed
| architecture. You'll not be able to load tracks directly form online.
| You might be able to -- stream them from another device, but then who
| cares? I think it's going to be an utter disaster and failure.
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But could Zune become a disaster bigger than Windows Vista and the XBox 360?
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