At 8:01 AM -0500 8/31/2008, Ralph wrote: >On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:55 -0400, Dan wrote: >>>I don't want remarkably bad things like the treacherous firmware >>>in the Apple Intel Macs >> >>Explain please? What's wrong with EFI? > >The problem with EFI is that it give some remote party, which is Apple >in this case, the ability to decide what OS I can run on my computer.
As is their right. >Maybe someday in the future, Apple pushes out an EFI update that >allows only 10.5 or some version of Mac OS to run. There are >several reasons this might happen, and they don't require Apple to >be a bad guy. That's silly. There is no business case for ever doing this. >For example, the MPAA might sue Apple to stop Linux from running to stop >some piracy threat and a court orders Apple to do it. And now we've switched to an alternate universe, where our legal system is sideways. I'm sorry, Ralph, I just don't buy any of this conspiracy bit. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
