> -----Original Message-----
> From: F. Alfredo Rego [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> 
> At 12:09 PM -0800 11/7/03, Emerson, Tom wrote:
> > [Alfredo wrote]
> > > ... Be it as it may, be sure to fire up your iTunes -- on your
> > > favorite platform, whether Mac or Windows...
> >
> >Welll.... since my preferred platform is neither Mac nor Windows,
> 
> Sorry!  How could I have forgotten Linux?

Hmmm... true, I am now a major advocate of Linux, but with a certain amount of mirth I can say, "Aha!  You've fallen into my trap!  iTunes isn't available for the HP3000 either!" :)
 
[...]

> Interestingly, I used Safari (the native-mode browser for Mac OS X)
> to access this site and, once the dust settled, iTunes played the
> resulting mp3 file, which now seems to (co)exist peacefully within
> the same ecosystem.

Of course, if the end product is merely "an mp3" of the music, then I'm fairly certain things "will work" for just about every [PC] platform and OS.  And, in an obscure way, even the HP3000, working as "merely a file (or web/ftp) server", can indeed "store" these files or otherwise act as a repository -- bits are, after all, bits...

OTOH, if the "end user" needs to run client software to talk some inane protocol just to retrieve the file [and possibly respect certain DRM "bits"], then it is unlikely that "other systems" will get to play in that sandbox...

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