Posted by hawat.thufir@gmail.com on 08/27/05 20:52

Joel wrote:
....
>Buying from
> Wal-Mart, in particular, means supporting a corrupt, giant company,
> and all the ones other than iTunes sell WMA files, which means
> supporting Microsoft's format that is unfairly tied to its OS. iTunes
> uses an industry-standard format, and there is also another factor
> that I won't go into on this newsgroup, but truly makes it a
> no-brainer.
....

For the most part a corporation is a corporation, and they all exist to
make money. What's wrong with Wal-Mart being giant? Nothing. Is
Wal-Mart corrupt? Not sure I follow that reasoning. Is Wal-Mart good
for China and bad for the U.S.? Yes, but they're just filling a niche.

As to WMA, iTunes is just another DRM format, which is "unfairly" tied
to iPod's which are "unfairly" tied to the Mac OS (although iTunes will
work from a PC). Whether it's corporation X or corporation Y makes no
difference at the end of the day. Both corporation X and Y are out to
make money. Both X and Y integrate/tie/bundle software and OS. (X
could be Microsoft, Y could be Apple, for example.)


-Thufir

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