On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Except that I have no need for this and Apple thinks it below them to even deign to ask the lowly user if they don't want to install Bonjour.
You are not installing Bonjour. You are installing iTunes. To do that you had to download iTunes and run the installer. In the process you read and assented to lots of conditions. Nobody is forcing you to use iTunes. There are lots of alternatives.
By your rules, every application would have to display a list of every component to let you decide one by one which ones you want. That would be silly and would make writing the software very expensive because it would have to work under so many different configurations. There is nothing wrong with iTunes being of a single piece, take it or leave it.
This is very different than the operating system vendor pushing down updates that modify third-party software. Worse yet, the modifications bypass security features of that third-party software that are a major competitive feature of that software. What I think makes it criminal is that M$ is a convicted monopolist and Mozilla is a direct competitor in this market. M$'s prior conviction was largely due to their previous assault on Mozilla. Now they want to "knife the baby" a second time!
Let me put it another way. What makes this wrong is the same reasoning that bans convicted child molesters from areas around schools and playgrounds. They can't be trusted.
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