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>These aren't comparable. The OEM does not have to refund what it costs Microsoft to develop Windows. In order to approach comparability, there would have to be a market price for OS X which could be assessed.

That doesn't make much sense. I am not sure what the relevance is. Assuming Dell pays MS $30 per copy, are you implying that the judge ordered Dell to refund $99.99 to the customer who didn't want Windows? If you don't think the court did that, what is the relevance of the existence of the $99.99 copy again?

>Where can any person or organization buy an OEM (or any other) version of OS X?

If, for arguments sake, MS pulls Windows from the retail market completely and only sells to OEMs, Dell needn't refund anything anymore even if they continue to pay MS $30 per copy? Is that your argument?

If you believe the court ordered Dell to refund the $30, can't Apple calculate how much OS X development for Macbooks costs them? Are you implying it's hard to calculate so they needn't refund?

1. Hotel O hires caterers, and passes that cost on to its customers. Some of its customers object, because the food served by the caterers is not in line with either their preference or their moral convictions, and the catering was not the service they were seeking, they simply couldn't opt out. They were actually interested in a safe and comfortable place to sleep for the night near some attraction or appointment.
2. Bed & Breakfast A is a hot spot for its (few) patrons because it serves a particular dish of eggs benedict that they enjoy, and has a spectacular view.

What if some of the patrons in #2 don't like the eggs benedict or the view but just wanted a place to sleep because they think the beds(hardware) are superior? Should they be denied a refund solely because there are fewer of their kind? Your earlier argument as more like if the caterers in #1 sold the same food also in their restaurant, somehow O's customers are eligible for a refund, but A's are not.

http://www.cnet.com/news/macbo...

http://www.junauza.com/2008/04...

https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

I'm not an Android user but some quick googling turned up this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.forscene.KestrelTest&hl=en

http://www.junauza.com/2012/01/best-garageband-like-apps-for-android.html

And how do you fix it just using a mouse?

I'm usually looking for a "keyboard only" solution, like this's one:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string menu:minimize,maximize,close

But I suppose you could click at the beginning of the above, hold and drag your mouse to the end, right click the block of selected text, select "copy," click Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, right click next to the flashing prompt, select "paste" ... hmmmm ... okay, anyone know how to get the "Run" command in Gnome with a mouse click instead of Alt-F2 so this guy can click "OK" insteak of pressing his Enter key?

http://www.junauza.com/2009/12/free-and-open-source-cad-software-for.html You can also try VariCad at www.varicad.com Honestly, I think it's better to pony up the cash and get version of SolidWorks. See if you can split the costs with someone else. Then you will know for sure that is can handle the file formats of the other products.

I am amused that it took too long to get homebrew running in the Xbox 360... I thought that homebrew was already running.

Funny that in the case of the Wii, homebrew has been running very well since quite some time now.

In fact, due to the terrible "official" releases available for the Wii (all the games are soo boring, or as the guy at Zero Punctuation put it, they seem made for wand-shaking-retards), the homebrew has been a breath of fresh air.

I have had the Wii since the day it came out (I *preordered* it, with high hopes) but it is has been a general disappointment. I am waiting for an OK RPG (not kid-oriented) or an RTS (for which the Wii control would serve really well!)...
Although nowadays I guess it would be better to port any of the open source RTS...

http://www.junauza.com/2009/04/ubuntu-now-more-popular-than-windows-xp.html

1% is underestimation of facts.

Maybe this will do: http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/evopedia.html Here is a story about four ways to do it: http://www.junauza.com/2008/07/offline-wikipedia-for-linux.html

If you're adventurous, there are instructions on how to build your own in Linux here: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html.

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Quotes from Richard Matthew Stallman:

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, that you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

"Fighting software patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."

"Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'."

More quotes:

"People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that."

"Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings."

"Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral." (Slashdot interview, 1 May 2000)