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WMD:
The Airport Extreme Wifi in your (and mine) Powerbook is unsupported by Linux period.  It's a Broadcom chipset, and will probably never work in Linux.  You'll have to get a USB wireless adapter if you want wireless PPC Linux on that thing.

piratePenguin:
Hardware, no matter how good it would otherwise be, without published, available specifications and other information for software developers, makes me cry.

Aloone_Jonez:
Whic is why some would consider closed source hardware to be evil. ;)

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Whic is why some would consider closed source hardware to be evil. ;)
--- End quote ---
Not because it makes me cry, but because of why it makes me cry.

File formats without good, publically available specifications also makes me cry for much the same reason (Microsoft, Macromedia - FUCK YOU. Macromedia as much as MS (in this area. Altogether MS is more evil with the DRM and other copy protection shit), because SWF files are all over the otherwise mostly-ordered world wide web (THANK YOU w3c, mozilla, opera, konqueror, and other good people). And the license on the latest SWF spec's make them useless to writers of 3rd-party SWF interpreters.).

Maybe I should've said it makes me want to SCREAM instead of cry.....

I officially don't want a Mac anymore BTW. In the future I will be trying hard to buy hardware whose developers have released enough documentation, and that'll probably mean choosing every piece of hardware myself, something I can't do with Macs.

Aloone_Jonez:
I agree, this is the main problem with proprietay software and closed sourced hardware. I don't think either are evil I just believe it's immoral to keep specfications secret and to this end any doing so is evil - I don't have a problem with someone making a closed source app and then making the file formats public.

I'm sure I've said this before but I can understand why some developers don't use the GPL because it them the right to keep interlectual property and to force people to pay for using their software but I think something needs to be done to force them to release some informatin regarding formats.

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