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However, there's been no way to do these things. Although the iPod has the hardware necessary -- it's built like a PDA with a whopping hard drive -- the software is a closed system, with no documentation or tools to help developers turn it into something else.
That is, until now.
After four months of stout effort, programmer Bernard Leach has managed to get Linux running on his iPod. Although still in the early stages, this development may allow hackers to bypass Apple's closed operating system on the iPod by using Linux, an open and freely available operating system, instead.
This is quite relevant to 'Does Apple benefit the Open Source community?'.
A company does not have the interests of the bazaar at its heart no matter how gooey it makes people feel. this applies to apple, red hat, mandrake and so on.
I am happy to see yet another closed proprietary bunch of crap bypassed so that people can use their computer hardware to do the things they want it to do.
