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I don't understand why so many people are supporting Palm. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the device was created by Apple. Not only that but

by nudded 17y ago

I don't understand why so many people are supporting Palm. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the device was created by Apple. Not only that but they also try to make Apple look bad in the mean time.

rms 17y ago
What law?
- nudded 17y ago
  I expressed myself wrong, they violate a license agreement: "USB is a standard with a licensing body which mandates the acceptable USB protocol behavior of vendors that slap the approved USB logo on their product/box, part of the licensing agreement which Palm signed mandates that they supply their proper vendor id (in this case 0 × 0830 (Palm Inc.)) during negotiation. What Palm did was change the vendor id they were supplying to Apple's vendor id. Palm is in violation of a licensing agreement they willingly entered into" as written by evgen here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723010 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723010
nailer 17y ago
I don't understand why people are supporting Compaq. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the device was created by IBM. Not only that, but they also try and make IBM look bad at the same time. I don't understand why people are supporting Microsoft. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the file was created by WordPerfect. Not only that, but they also try and make WordPerfect look bad at the same time. I don't understand why people are supporting OpenOffice. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the file was created by Word. Not only that, but they also try and make Microsoft look bad at the same time.
- duskwuff 17y ago
  That argument would only apply if Apple was somehow locking Palm out of some data. But they aren't: iTunes writes out an XML file describing its library contents. ($HOME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml on OS X, probably similar on Windows.) With that data in hand, it's probably easier to sync files over to the Pre with their own software than it is to reverse-engineer the iPod's database format and make syncing work from within iTunes.

by nudded 17y ago

rms 17y ago

What law?

nudded 17y ago
I expressed myself wrong, they violate a license agreement: "USB is a standard with a licensing body which mandates the acceptable USB protocol behavior of vendors that slap the approved USB logo on their product/box, part of the licensing agreement which Palm signed mandates that they supply their proper vendor id (in this case 0 × 0830 (Palm Inc.)) during negotiation. What Palm did was change the vendor id they were supplying to Apple's vendor id. Palm is in violation of a licensing agreement they willingly entered into" as written by evgen here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723010 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723010

nailer 17y ago

I don't understand why people are supporting Compaq. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the device was created by IBM. Not only that, but they also try and make IBM look bad at the same time. I don't understand why people are supporting Microsoft. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the file was created by WordPerfect. Not only that, but they also try and make WordPerfect look bad at the same time. I don't understand why people are supporting OpenOffice. They are obviously breaking the law by pretending the file was created by Word. Not only that, but they also try and make Microsoft look bad at the same time.

duskwuff 17y ago
That argument would only apply if Apple was somehow locking Palm out of some data. But they aren't: iTunes writes out an XML file describing its library contents. ($HOME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml on OS X, probably similar on Windows.) With that data in hand, it's probably easier to sync files over to the Pre with their own software than it is to reverse-engineer the iPod's database format and make syncing work from within iTunes.