On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
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Subject: Re: IS the world about to change ?
Date: Donnerstag 21 Oktober 2010N
From: Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:24 AM, James Therrault wrote:
If you don't like it there are alternatives: Windows, Linux,
Chrome, just
getting by on older Macs, but don't come here wailing about Apple
becoming
your overlord and locking you down and denying you your right to the
latest and greatest goodies on your 6-year-old Mac.
Nope, not my quote. - JT
This is a general problem. I run Linux for this very reason. It
never let me
down. Whatever computer hardware I was giving it, it would always
do the job
right. The upgrading is step-by-step, no great leaps, but always a
little…
And I cannot come up with another operating system that would let
be move from
a PC (x86, 32-bit) to a Power Mac (PowerPC, 32-bit) to a Power Mac
(PowerPC,
64-bit) to a PC (amd64, 64-bit) without having migration trouble.
All the
software ran, regardless of the underlying architecture [except
closed source
stuff like Flash :-( – I'd love open standards!]. All my personal
files and
settings – there! You couldn't even tell the difference if it was a
PC or a
PowerPC!
When someone buys a product like a PC with Windows, or a Mac with
Mac OS, then
(s)he agrees to the license, right? With Microsoft and Apple this
is a right
to USE this software, not to own it.
With Linux on the other hand… well, you even get the right to
enhance it,
participate with it, … much too technical stuff anyway. But you may
as well
simply just use it.
Linux has never and most likely will never drop hardware support,
as long as
you report incompatibilities at the appropriate forums/lists. A Linux
developer will always try to solve this problem for you – as long
as you are
willing to help in this process.
Just my solution around this “business problem” some of you are
having with
Apple.
Cheers,
Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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