____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:52 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ 7 on Wednesday 09 January 2008 12:00 : \____
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>>>> The dumbest situation is with the Turbolinux Ripper and encoder.
>>>> This allows you to rip music from CDs to the Wizpy player.
>>>> Unbelievably the lame and ogg encoders aren't actually installed on
>>>> the system and there is no way to manually install them.
>>>
>>> Probably because micoshaft corporation told them to do that?
>>
>> I do try to ignore the Wizpy. It runs Turbolinux, whose parent company
>> entered an 'alliance' with Microsoft and even kissed in public, ushered
>> OOXML, and did other funky stuff.
>>
>
> We need a list of devices and companies that consumers should be wary
> of. Perhaps we could kick off a linux devices FAQ here?
Bad idea probably. Whitelist or blacklist? A whiteliist would be gigantic.
LinuxDevices covers like 1000 stories every year. Also, GPL violators is a
grey area...
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