it’s one thing to critique a product, and even highlight it’s short comings, but an article that is made up mostly of fiction and/or FUD opinions is not something I wish to see in an FOSS based magazine/webzine.

Does LM have an editing department? I would hope than someone who read this article before it was published would have seen the blatant errors (ipod proprietary files, etc..) and pulled this article or at least advised that it should be corrected before publishing it.

They’ve had misleading commercials for years. In an effort to show their simplicity they’d often show a computer that had nothing plugged in for example. Usually young teens in school fall for this. It’s also the reason they push their tech to universities etc. Going on, they’ve had some of their TV ads pulled for being deceptive. In one particular one they said their processor was the fastest when it wasn’t. Once you sit back and observe the mentality of the marketing behind Apple it becomes to clear that they are and have always been a desperate company that tries to sucker who ever they can. I almost feel bad to state the truth, but that’s what it is.

Then when it all starts to fall apart they put the processor they used to make fun of in their own computers, namely Intel. From the CPU to the USB ports, to the bus, memory etc. There is really nothing different other than their software which if it were to ever become popular would be hacked into a million pieces by virus writers in no time.

They there’s the fact that since most of their following aren’t knowledgeable enough to understand that MP3’s are where it started, they convert everything into Apples proprietary format which causes all kinds of problems. You can actually lose your own rights unless all you do is buy a new song every week. And then it’s still possible to get screwed by Apple if you are not really careful. Believe me. Apple isn’t there to make using music easy.

And because they advertise to “smug” people, they get their nose up in the air and become Apple snobs. Oh, I could go on, and on and on.

But after reading the responses, I think that if an article can illicit that kind of responses, then it must be good. It got people thinking (and writing). The information contained in the responses was extremely informative and I learned a lot from those comments. Any article that can do that, is ok in my book.

This goes back to my original final statement. Until people understand that the monitor switch on the computer does NOT turn the control the computer itself, we will have a hard time convincing them that OpenSource is a good thing.