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Retail Sharp Zaurus Released
Arminius writes "It looks like Sharp has finally released the Linux based Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for retail sale. This thing is so awesome! Other than only being able to listen to mp3's thru my headphones only, this thing blows away
my iPaq 3835! It even has Opera as the web browser. "
Damn, this is kinda crappy. Sure it's nice that they put Linux on it, and Opera. But isn't linux about choice? They're locking you into to one browser, and the wrong on at that.
Hello? There is already an Open Source Browser: Mozilla. just like there is an open source directory lister: ls. Any other tools are kind redundant, and a waste of time.
It's really just that these companies don't really _get_ linux, and just see it as a viable medium to screw us consumers.
I think we should amend the GPL and close the loopholes that allow open source software to be sold for money! They've been abused to long!
Apparently Mozilla 0.9.9 isn't good enough to view sharpelectronics.com. They recommend I upgrade to MSIE 4.
I let them know that my decision to purchase an SL-5500 is based solely on them letting me in with whatever browser I want to use. (I had to use Netscape 4.x to get to their feedback page) So far there has been no response.
It's absurd to lock people out of a Web site based on browser-type in the hopes that folks using ancient ("third-generation") Web browsers are actually going to spend 17 hours downloading the latest version on their 14.4 modems.
Let's fill it up via USB and have it take 10 million hours because USB is bum... stupid.