um, you are already locked in by Real
Posted Nov 16, 2006 5:52 UTC (Thu) by
stevenj (guest, #421)
In reply to:
Resisting the binary blob by smitty_one_each
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Resisting the binary blob
If you are using RealAudio format then you are already trapped by vendor lock-in, regardless of whether you use an iPod.
Using open file formats is far more important than what hardware/OS you pick. The latter trap can be replaced, the former trap (especially for lossy compression) is much more difficult to escape.
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