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MacOS X Upgrade Not Free Anymore?

Posted by timothy on from the little-f-free-even dept.

Jacek Fedorynski writes: "Remember when Steve Jobs said that the MacOS X 10.1 upgrade would be available to anyone to download for free and also on a CD for $20? Well, it seems that they changed their minds about the free download."

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  1. Re:*nix by TheInternet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hell if you wanted to mirror all the linux distro's you could do it with rsync.

    So use Linux.

    doesn't have big bandwidth friends willing to mirror it for free

    That really has nothing to do with it. Apple doesn't distribute software through third parties. This isn't just another *nix distribution. If you want to mirror something, mirror Darwin. It's a perfectly capable *nix OS.

    because Apple doesn't give a damn thing back to the community from which it stole its code from

    Oh, please. Everything they "stole" (and modified) is re-released to the community as a complete OS in Darwin. They've introduced a lot of new code to the community -- NetInfo, OpenPlay, NetSprocket, QuickTime Streaming Server, and CDSA. They've also submitted patches back to the BSDs and Apache.

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