If anyone wants to learn from history...watch that robert cringly pbs thing again!
Why did Bill write apps for the Mac in the first place? To hedge his bets on the GUI interface and to make money, while at the same time he was co-developing Windows (OS/2 at that point) with IBM.
Bill is a smart guy and it makes sense that he sees these reasons to port/write apps for Linux:
1. It's a good hedge bet against any action by the Justice Department to attack the fundemental monetary value of Windows. 2. It makes MS look more cross platform and will help his Linux is a competitor defense. 3. Keeps up with its competitors in the Office space (Corel, Star Division, probably Lotus soon), who are already on/or are on their way to Linux. 4. It provides a new revenue stream from people who haven't necessarily payed their MS tax for the operating system, which means these people may have more money left over to pay for fat applications. As much as most Linux users don't like MS I would bet that most would buy Office if there was a Linux version. 5. It costs Bill less to expand the market for Linux than any version of Windows, which means MS can make a killing on application sales and support without having to push Windows all the time. If MS has writes a decent graphical application installer for GNOME/KDE their Linux software will SELL like hotcakes.
Those are the realities as I see them. The truth is out there, now we just sit back and see if anything comes of it. At worst I wish them luck.
If your MP3s are "skipping" it has to do with poor ENCODING on your computer, not the Rio! I bet if you play the suspect mp3s on your computer they will have the same "skipping" problem. Download a decent mp3 to your rio and it should play fine.
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holy shit!
hope marca is behind this one...he's the only person I trust at aol.
is thehellhole.com just down or has it been slashdot'd already??? ouch that is fast...who can't wait to hear "you bastards yada yada yada"
If anyone wants to learn from history...watch that robert cringly pbs thing again!
Why did Bill write apps for the Mac in the first place? To hedge his bets on the GUI interface and to make money, while at the same time he was co-developing Windows (OS/2 at that point) with IBM.
Bill is a smart guy and it makes sense that he sees these reasons to port/write apps for Linux:
1. It's a good hedge bet against any action by the Justice Department to attack the fundemental monetary value of Windows.
2. It makes MS look more cross platform and will help his Linux is a competitor defense.
3. Keeps up with its competitors in the Office space (Corel, Star Division, probably Lotus soon), who are already on/or are on their way to Linux.
4. It provides a new revenue stream from people who haven't necessarily payed their MS tax for the operating system, which means these people may have more money left over to pay for fat applications. As much as most Linux users don't like MS I would bet that most would buy Office if there was a Linux version.
5. It costs Bill less to expand the market for Linux than any version of Windows, which means MS can make a killing on application sales and support without having to push Windows all the time. If MS has writes a decent graphical application installer for GNOME/KDE their Linux software will SELL like hotcakes.
Those are the realities as I see them. The truth is out there, now we just sit back and see if anything comes of it. At worst I wish them luck.
If your MP3s are "skipping" it has to do with poor ENCODING on your computer, not the Rio! I bet if you play the suspect mp3s on your computer they will have the same "skipping" problem. Download a decent mp3 to your rio and it should play fine.