On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I feel your pain. I had been looking at merging my ipod and my cell > > phone into one device. I bought a 3GS iphone. That phone is amazing > > and kudos to Apple to developing such a great device. BUT, you need > > itune to put music on it. And that's only available to Windows > > and OSX. > > Yes, there's a word for that in English: defective. > > > Luckily for me, I have a Windows gaming rig. > > That's an odd use of "lucky". > > > Hopefully our wonderful hackers will find a way around > > Apple's shenanigans. > > Instead, hopefully, you'll realize at some point that you're hurting > yourself and that you had better buy another product, one that doesn't > work against your freedom. > I'd like to develop this further. Freedom does matter a lot to me in some cases. I want to be able to criticize my government, I don't want to be thown into jail for no reason, etc. I want my data to be stored in open formats. That's the stuff that matters to me. The fact that I need a software than runs on Windows to manage a device I picked and bought, totally irrelevant. And it is to most people who left their mom's basement. Do you care that your Videotron/Bell cable devices are closed? Probably not. For a living, I manage different types of Unix systems. Some open, some proprietary. Do I care? No. Does anyone in my team does? No way in hell. People should really stop seeing all this as religion. Once you start working at the enterprise level, you soon realize you have no choice but to use proprietary software and hardware. Learn to live with it or stop using technology altogether ;) > > > Stefan > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- :(){ :|:& };:
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