osViews: Java-based iTunes Coming to Linux | Linux Today

osViews: Java-based iTunes Coming to Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 21, 2005

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link. ]

“As Apple’s iTunes grows to be the defacto standard for legal
digital music distribution, a growing number of alternative
operating system users have expressed concern that their preferred
platforms are being excluded as iTunes currently only runs on
Apple’s Mac OS X and Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. Kelly
McNeill submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews
which shows that Apple’s music software is being ported to Java,
albeit only for Motorola’s Linux-based cell-phones…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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