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Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux
jfruh writes "Apple is now offering upgrades to the latest version of OS X for free. When Linux inventor Linus Torvalds was asked whether this threatened Linux (presumably by someone who had only a passing knowledge of all the things 'free' can mean when applied to software) it gave him an opportunity for a passionate defense of open source. Torvalds also says that he'll keep programming until it gets 'not interesting,' which hasn't happened yet." The newest version of OS X may be gratis for Apple hardware buyers, but it's notably far from the original, (literally) un-branded sense of "mavericks."
If you've spent much time on the site, you'd realize that they operate with a very special kind of stupid around here. And by special kind of stupid, I mean about 1,000x the normal human amount.
No, it really is hatred. You are mistaking your hatred for Apple for pragmatism.
If you can't see that your totally blanket statement that there is only one positive feature to Apple hardware, and that it is inferior and expensive is totally subjective, then I can't help you. Consider that some people (and the subset of people who use computers is vast) don't have the same criteria for hardware selection that you do.
You sound reasonably intelligent, but you appear to have a mental block on this issue.