what part of sharecropping don't you understand? Walled gardens, like all monopolies*, are forms of involuntary servitude masquerading as markets. The question is weather emancipation only applies to the whole, or weather situational servitude is equally protected under the Constitution's 13th amendment.
*like the convict M$ Ed - and would someone fix the list so that responces go back to the list. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Derek J. Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > Imagine if Microsoft charged a 30% tax on all products people bought while > using Windows. Would you as a consumer continue using Windows? Forcing > developers to cater to them? > > It's not quite the same thing as a 30% tax. It's more like a 30% "finders > fee", because it's the software vendor who has the arrangement with Apple, > not the consumer. It is going to be a lawsuit because it is anti-competitive and I hope the clawback gives Apple a quarter in the red as a lesson. > But I'm not sure what the big deal is. Apple is providing an entire > distribution channel, a deployment and upgrade methodology, etc., etc., why > *shouldn't* they get a chunk of change for providing that, so that software > developers don't have to reinvent that wheel? > D > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
