In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:06:50 +0100
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> __/ [ billwg ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 01:03 \__
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>> arachnid wrote:
>>> Now why does this sound like something the RIAA would come up with?
>>>
>>> http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49283610,00.htm
>>>
>>> "There's the spirit of sharing, which Zune encourages by letting Zunies
>>> swap music over a built-in wireless network. But all things must pass --
>>> in this case, within 72 hours. You'll have three days in which to listen
>>> to each song three times, at which point it is summoned back to the
>>> great server in the sky. Doesn't matter if you're passing your parents a
>>> recording you made of your kid being cute -- Zune will banish it. Unless
>>> Microsoft is willing to let other companies join in the fun, your
>>> chances of sharing anything will be limited by the number of other Zune
>>> owners within a 50m radius. Perhaps that's the new digital rights
>>> management strategy -- Zero Users, No Exchange."
>>
>> What have you got to lose, spiderman? If Zune is a flop then the
>> marketers will have missed the boat, which would not be the first time
>> something flopped. But it isn't PC desktop or server software, now is
>> it? Is there an OSS equivalent of Zune? Why not?
>
> Zune is hardware. Are you past 'wine time'?
I would think hardware and firmware, myself. Presumably there's
a WinCE (or embedded XP) on that thin little box somewhere,
and of course codecs.
>
> The iPod had several Linux mods. Several MP3 players are Linux based.
>
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