[nycbug-talk] Fwd: Firmware license

G. Rosamond george
Wed Oct 27 13:47:45 EDT 2004


On Oct 27, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Okan Demirmen wrote:
>
>> On Wed 2004.10.27 at 13:31 -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
>>> On Oct 27, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Sunny Dubey wrote:
>>>
>>>> They have a monopoly on the laptop
>>>> market, and they know it.
>>>
>>> Wait- I thought Apple did?  ;)
>>
>> and you would hope apple would do better on this front as well, but
>> they don't.
>
> As much as I admire the diligence of those that put Linux on their 
> powerbooks, the usefulness of that has always escaped me.
>
> I'm generally happy with the BSD that runs on my ibook and my G5 
> tower. :)
>

I generally am also happy about the *BSD-derived OS* on my iBook, 
except I can't crack WEP due to Apple's chipset for the AirportExtreme 
card.  And as a consultant wandering Manhattan and beyond on a daily 
basis, it's frustrating.

g





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