> 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.

Ah, how very lawyerly of you Thomas.  "Didn't you read the very long,
dry and fine print before you installd this program?  Tsk, tsk."

If this were a mortgage, they would call it "predatory lending."

> 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.

OK, I'll leave it.  Songbird is looking promising.

> 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.

Here, let me put it in a way that is connected to reality:  people who
get their panties all wadded up over something so trivial, as well as
moot, shoudn't be taken seriously at all.


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