The ABC is a lone voice in the sea of commercial interests. Rupert Murdoch, Kerrie Stokes and Kerrie Packer control the rest of the Australian Media, adn the ABC and SBS ore the only things worth watching on TV
Personally, I don't care who wrote it. Some of the points raised are very real concerns.
I for one don't have a working DVD player. Hardware support for my Logitech Quickcam and other USB devices is very shaky, and don't even start on 'the open sourced' SBLive! drivers.
And as for the duplication efforts - Linux needs to get it's act in gear if it wants to be a real threat. Ranting endlessly about everybody else is so childish.
I can't believe that i actually read the start of this article. What a load of FUD!
I'm no Sony sympathiser (sounds like the McCarthy era), but when a commercially better product is released to the marketplace, the competition has to better themselves, or put up with producing an inferior product.
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I for one don't have a working DVD player. Hardware support for my Logitech Quickcam and other USB devices is very shaky, and don't even start on 'the open sourced' SBLive! drivers.
And as for the duplication efforts - Linux needs to get it's act in gear if it wants to be a real threat. Ranting endlessly about everybody else is so childish.
I'm no Sony sympathiser (sounds like the McCarthy era), but when a commercially better product is released to the marketplace, the competition has to better themselves, or put up with producing an inferior product.