Comments on: Mac Netbooks http://www.chuqui.com/2010/01/mac-netbooks/ Typing Without A Net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chuckles48 http://www.chuqui.com/2010/01/mac-netbooks/comment-page-1/#comment-3440 Chuckles48 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:05:55 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=5920#comment-3440 I guess I have a real problem with Apple saying "you can only run our software on our hardware", then trying to charge for it and treat it like it's a commodity. You can't have it both ways, and they've been trying to for a long time now. I can buy a second-hand copy of an OS from someone, and Apple has no recourse or business, so long as the license key is transfered, and the preceding owner wipes it. That's the very demonstration of a commodity.<br><br>Honestly, it reminds me a lot of when MS tried to price-support their vendors by saying any MS OS sold on eBay was pirated. A quick note to the CA AG's office squelched that idea - perhaps it's time to revisit the issue.<br><br>Serriously, just because Apple says "this is what the agreement is", does not make it a legal and/or binding agreement. Apple may not honor the technical support for a jailbroke copy of the OS, but that doesn't make running it on non-Apple hardware illegal - it's only an unsupported configuration. I guess I have a real problem with Apple saying “you can only run our software on our hardware”, then trying to charge for it and treat it like it's a commodity. You can't have it both ways, and they've been trying to for a long time now. I can buy a second-hand copy of an OS from someone, and Apple has no recourse or business, so long as the license key is transfered, and the preceding owner wipes it. That's the very demonstration of a commodity.

Honestly, it reminds me a lot of when MS tried to price-support their vendors by saying any MS OS sold on eBay was pirated. A quick note to the CA AG's office squelched that idea – perhaps it's time to revisit the issue.

Serriously, just because Apple says “this is what the agreement is”, does not make it a legal and/or binding agreement. Apple may not honor the technical support for a jailbroke copy of the OS, but that doesn't make running it on non-Apple hardware illegal – it's only an unsupported configuration.

]]> By: Chuckles48 http://www.chuqui.com/2010/01/mac-netbooks/comment-page-1/#comment-3272 Chuckles48 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:05:55 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/?p=5920#comment-3272 I guess I have a real problem with Apple saying "you can only run our software on our hardware", then trying to charge for it and treat it like it's a commodity. You can't have it both ways, and they've been trying to for a long time now. I can buy a second-hand copy of an OS from someone, and Apple has no recourse or business, so long as the license key is transfered, and the preceding owner wipes it. That's the very demonstration of a commodity.<br><br>Honestly, it reminds me a lot of when MS tried to price-support their vendors by saying any MS OS sold on eBay was pirated. A quick note to the CA AG's office squelched that idea - perhaps it's time to revisit the issue.<br><br>Serriously, just because Apple says "this is what the agreement is", does not make it a legal and/or binding agreement. Apple may not honor the technical support for a jailbroke copy of the OS, but that doesn't make running it on non-Apple hardware illegal - it's only an unsupported configuration. I guess I have a real problem with Apple saying “you can only run our software on our hardware”, then trying to charge for it and treat it like it's a commodity. You can't have it both ways, and they've been trying to for a long time now. I can buy a second-hand copy of an OS from someone, and Apple has no recourse or business, so long as the license key is transfered, and the preceding owner wipes it. That's the very demonstration of a commodity.

Honestly, it reminds me a lot of when MS tried to price-support their vendors by saying any MS OS sold on eBay was pirated. A quick note to the CA AG's office squelched that idea – perhaps it's time to revisit the issue.

Serriously, just because Apple says “this is what the agreement is”, does not make it a legal and/or binding agreement. Apple may not honor the technical support for a jailbroke copy of the OS, but that doesn't make running it on non-Apple hardware illegal – it's only an unsupported configuration.

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