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Jean Tourrilhes On Linux Wireless LAN

Posted by simoniker on from the spelling-101 dept.

mcleodnine writes "Jean Tourrilhes of the Linux Wireless LAN Howto project took some time to answer a few questions from members at LinuxQuestions.org. Among some of the more interesting commments was his pick of best and worst Open Source friendly vendors ('Some of those TI engineers even sent me e-mails criticising some features of the Wireless Extensions'), an opinion or two about the Next Big Thing in wireless (MIMO), and a poke in the eye for OS zealots of any religion."

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  1. Re:OS Zealotry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If the AAC format is so great, and everything is open, and apple owns the majority marketshare, then it should have no problem establishing itself.

    What is more likely to happen is everyone will be turned off that in order to use the iTMS they can only use an iPod, or if they have an iPod they can only use the iTMS, and then say screw it, and get one of a zillion other devices/services. That's why WMA is likely to win in the format war. Because apple is repeating the exact same mistake it made with the lock of superior mac hardware and operating system software in 1985. They were arrogant and closed then, and it didn't work. They are arrogant and closed today.

    If Microsoft were pulling this move, with a 70% marketshare, tying a microsoft player to the store, all of you wold be screaming bloody antitrust murder. you know why? Because you are biased koolaid drinking zealots and support apple's dysfunctional myopia.

  2. Re:Who says the French are arrogant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi, dickhead. Managed to get your GIMPed wallpaper into any major distributions lately?