Can Open Source Outdo the IPod?

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Consumer electronics manufacturer Neuros Audio is tapping the open-source community to convert its upcoming portable media player from iPod road kill into a contender.

This could be a stroke of genius. Open-source Linux has taken on Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system, and Mozilla has challenged the ubiquitous Internet Explorer web browser. In the same way, open source would seem suited to breaking Apple Computer's digital music stranglehold.

http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1...w=wn_tophead_5

Neuros had opensourced the firmware for the player I have from them, its good.....

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Gonna put one of those Neuros on my lust list.