Forbes/MSNBC: Teen Builds Linux Workaround for iTunes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 29, 2005

“Cody Brocious is a 17-year old 11th grader from Chamberburg,
Pa., and like many other teens he loves his iPod and uses the
iTunes music store to buy music.

“Brocious likes using the Linux operating system more than he
does Microsoft’s Windows or Apple Computer’s Mac OS. But Apple
doesn’t make software that would let Linux users like Brocious buy
songs from the iTunes store, so he did what any 21st-century teen
raised in the digital age would do–he and his friends wrote a
program to do so themselves…”

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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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