On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 23:42, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ok, more to the point, what in Apple's business practice is so bad, compared >> to other HW makers that people need to single it out ? > > The x86 landscape is a competitive market. You can buy any x86 (Intel > or AMD powered) system and install your choice of OS on it... Linux, > FreeBSD, you-name it.
Oh, and you can't install Linux/BSD/Windows on a Mac machine ? That's news to me. I see tons of people who buy Mac machines and run their favorite flavor of free or non free software. > Apple on the other hand is a monopoly. Not in my dictionary. > The programmers and the firm´s lawyers do everything they can to prevent > Apple software running on non-Apple hardware. Well, I've never heard about Apple going after individuals who'd run OSX on their non Mac machines. And Apple is actually making it easier to run virtual instances of OSX. And unlike Windows 8, having OSX preinstalled on your machine does not mean you can't erase it and install something else in place. As a hardware maker, I strongly doubt they even consider that. Conversely, Microsoft, as a software maker _must_ consider such options. Apple is not forcing you to use the services and software they sell/provide but Apple's policy is to not license the software to OEMs. You may not like that, but why would you care since you are admittedly a proponent of free software and OSX is not free ? OSX is not free software. It is not. Get over that. You can't use OSX freely. It may be dirt cheap but it comes with strings. Jean-Christophe Helary _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
