[olug] iTunes petition

[Eric P]

What is the big surprise here?  Apple is trying their hardest to be the next Microsoft, and you guys just eat it up and 
wonder why you have trouble.  There are other alternatives out there that work wonderfully in Linux.

I love my Sansa player that simply mounts as an external drive under *any* OS w/o the need to install special software, 
etc. (and it wasn't exorbitantly expensive either).  No encryption; just easy access to my files from any computer.

Eric

Chad Homan wrote:
> I hate iTunes as well.  But I cannot sync my iPod Touch 3rd Gen with
> anything.  Special thanks
> to apple for encrypting the libraries.  So unless someone knows of a
> jailbreak that they are
> willing to share, I would like to see iTunes work better under wine or a
> port to linux.
> 
> Chad, CISSP
> 
> Ogden Nash <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/ogden_nash.html>  -
> "The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat."
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I loathe iTunes. Amarok works fine with iPods.
>>
>> That being said, I'm all for more vendors supporting Linux. I'd also
>> be fine with Apple just working to make iTunes work better under Wine.
>> But Apple doesn't play nice with others normally. I wonder if Apple
>> will support Linux more when Google releases Chrome OS.
>>
>> -- T. J. Brumfield
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Chad Homan<choman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Might be, oops.  It was just posted to digg two hours ago, well the link
>> I
>>> stole
>>> anyways.  Perhaps this will start a new petition ;)
>>>
>>> Chad, CISSP
>>>
>>> Pablo Picasso<
>> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pablo_picasso.html>
>>> - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> For those who care:
>>>>> http://www.petitiononline.com/eb221998/petition.html
>>>> "With the latest 'Feisty Fawn' release of Ubuntu (7.04)..."
>>>>
>>>> Do you think maybe this is a legacy web page that's no longer valid?
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
>>>>       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins
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