Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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I dont know about the ipod, but there is open source firmware for my archos mp3 player (http://rockbox.haxx.se/).
Anyway i think the author is being a bit pessimistic here, there is allways an equlibrium in these things, if a company imposes too many restrictions on their software people wont buy it, they'll buy something else, take the author's example about apple only letting you read email with apples software, if they did that who the hell would buy a mac? I'm not being anti oss here, just pragmatic, i use oss whenever i can, but i'm not going to stop using (closed) software that i like. I run a xp/linux dual boot at home, a lot of the software i use on xp is closed, most of it i got for free (sygate, winamp, trillian, etc) other i paid for, mostly games, and i'm not going stop playing medal of honor or civ 3 to play tux racer just because it's oss....