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Re: [News] AMD Completely Changed the Market in Favour of Free Desktops (Linux)

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On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:29:43 -0500,
 Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:21:50 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| AMD¢s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best 
>>| news desktop Linux has had in a long time. 
>> `----
>
> Followed quickly by some of the worst news, as Apple cuts off third party
> apps from reading or writing to iPods, including Linux apps.

Not entirely accurate, what they've done is cut off access to the
itunes.db, (or rather, cripples the db if you change something) you can
still write to the device, install rockbox, etc. 

Still a pretty lame move none the less, Apple's even more of a
monopolist than MS in most cases. 



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