I admit I have little to no experience with Apple products. The one home computer that I have Vista pre-installed on works well and I have no complaints. I was lazy and bought that HP system, well I lied I do have one complaint the amount of trialware and other pre-installed s/w took me a significant amount of time to remove.
I primarily use Fedora at home and RHEL at work; so I consider myself in the camp "whatever tool works". I prefer open formats and specifications but I am a realist. Even Apple has done things that make me scratch my head, e.g. making it "harder" to download/save a movie trailer. I found the last few weeks of computerguys discussion, the whole netbook/macbook/laptop discussion was amusing to me since I doubt I would ever own such a device out of fear of dropping it. Perhaps this fear is misplaced... I was not trying to be critical of you, just replying factually that MS released the protocol information which you should be applauding (in my opinion). My attempt to check "the facts" reflects well on me or at least I hope so. As a Linux user, I probably break a few laws daily at home - playing purchased DVD's or playing mp3's ripped from 20 yr. old cd's. I am willing to take that risk. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:43:08PM -0400, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >Um Tom, I understand that you are Mac Advocate. > > Hardly. I'm consistently a good product advocate. Our Microsoft minders > want to change the subject and attack the messenger. > > I would be no less critical of attempts to break Apple's DRM, though > Apple seems to be phasing it out -- even removing activation checks from > iWork. > > >Please see > >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc251059.aspx > >They have released the protocol. > > I'm glad to know that has changed. > > For you to be critical of me for tyring to keep things legal does not > reflect well on you. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
