Sadly more and more devices are like this now. Apple seem to have popularised it and made is acceptable and other companies seem to be continuing the trend.
Apple devices are often repairable, what they are often not is user-repairable. They will gladly offer things like battery replacements, basically at the same price for what a standalone battery would have cost you. If you ever have to replace it then it's a little bit of more work, and in return you get more battery volume and more battery time.
Not much different from the GNU project which also puts restrictions on their software, just other restrictions. If customers won't accept them then they should not buy it.
Are you sure that's the Red Hat repositories, and not third party Google repositories? As fas as I understood the current version will remain forever, but you won't get any updated.
Well, seems they got rid of it on version 6. Up to version 5 they used up2date, and it was proprietary.
I could be wrong, but I've found a source RPM from RHEL 4 where it says it's GPL. If it ever was proprietary I guess that was many years ago now.
Regardless, the whole RHEL attitude is proprietary, they comply with the GPL because they have to, but do everything in their power to close the system as much as possible, and make it seem privative. If this weren't the case, CentOS wouldn't exist.
Not that it matters, red hat sucks.
They comply with the GPL because they are doing a lot of the development. They employ a ton of developers that are working on many important open source projects, work that everyone benefits from.
Google Chrome is not free software, it is proprietary freeware. There are many differences between Chrome and Chromium apart from the bundled Flash plugin.
True, but Chrome is not supported by Red Hat. It's not in their repositories. You have to install it manually if you want it, and Google has no responsibility to support it everywhere.
I'm using CentOS (free RHEL clone) on my laptop without any third party repositories. I'm interested in having a stable desktop environment, not every package in existence. Works great for me, but I can understand that it's not for everyone.
Also, RHEL versions are supported for a very long time. You can have systems running one version of RHEL, with security and bugfix updates for many years at a time. The whole point of the distro is stability; you don't have to worry about upgrading every six months.
What is Google thinking?
Well, I can kind of understand Google on this one actually. I use CentOS (free as in beer RHEL clone) on most of my desktops. I use it because it's a very stable environment. An always-updating web browser is not exactly suitable if you want stability. Since Chrome is not open source there's not much we can do about it. I guess Red Hat could maintain a fork of Chromium if they wanted; they basically do that with Firefox right now. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure Firefox ESR 17 runs on RHEL 6 (and probably 5 as well). Once ESR 10 has reached end of life they will probably rebase onto that.
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I don't know about other vendors but Apple offers it at roughly the same price as what a standalone battery would have cost you.
That's why you can send it in and let them replace the battery for you. I don't know if Microsoft offers that, but Apple does.
I disagree. I think this will hurt sales more than anything.
I don't own an ipad for this very reason and I won't be the owner of a surface pro either, apparently.
You don't have to throw it away just because something breaks. Apple offers service and repairs of iPads.
Do you only buy cars that you can repair everything on yourself?
Sadly more and more devices are like this now. Apple seem to have popularised it and made is acceptable and other companies seem to be continuing the trend.
Apple devices are often repairable, what they are often not is user-repairable. They will gladly offer things like battery replacements, basically at the same price for what a standalone battery would have cost you. If you ever have to replace it then it's a little bit of more work, and in return you get more battery volume and more battery time.
Not much different from the GNU project which also puts restrictions on their software, just other restrictions. If customers won't accept them then they should not buy it.
Are you talking about iOS apps?
Well, I guess Google can be picky too.
Are you sure that's the Red Hat repositories, and not third party Google repositories?
As fas as I understood the current version will remain forever, but you won't get any updated.
So all you would have to do is build a separate copy of GTK+, put it somewhere make chrome us it; using LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar.
Well, seems they got rid of it on version 6. Up to version 5 they used up2date, and it was proprietary.
I could be wrong, but I've found a source RPM from RHEL 4 where it says it's GPL. If it ever was proprietary I guess that was many years ago now.
Regardless, the whole RHEL attitude is proprietary, they comply with the GPL because they have to, but do everything in their power to close the system as much as possible, and make it seem privative. If this weren't the case, CentOS wouldn't exist.
Not that it matters, red hat sucks.
They comply with the GPL because they are doing a lot of the development. They employ a ton of developers that are working on many important open source projects, work that everyone benefits from.
RHEL has been using yum since version 5. And up2date is GPL, at least if this is the source: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/x86_64/SRPMS/up2date-4.4.5-1.src.rpm
Ret Hat is likely to ship ESR 17 once Mozilla makes ESR 10 end of life. Should be any day now.
Google Chrome is not free software, it is proprietary freeware. There are many differences between Chrome and Chromium apart from the bundled Flash plugin.
And why exactly is it not for desktops. I run it my desktops, even my laptops. Runs just fine.
I'm sure Google's services runs just fine in Firefox.
I think RHEL 6 will be supported until 2020.
WTF.
True, but Chrome is not supported by Red Hat. It's not in their repositories. You have to install it manually if you want it, and Google has no responsibility to support it everywhere.
It's actually 10 years; 13 if you pay extra.
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
I'm using CentOS (free RHEL clone) on my laptop without any third party repositories. I'm interested in having a stable desktop environment, not every package in existence. Works great for me, but I can understand that it's not for everyone.
What the heck are they thinking?
Also, RHEL versions are supported for a very long time. You can have systems running one version of RHEL, with security and bugfix updates for many years at a time. The whole point of the distro is stability; you don't have to worry about upgrading every six months.
What is Google thinking?
Well, I can kind of understand Google on this one actually. I use CentOS (free as in beer RHEL clone) on most of my desktops. I use it because it's a very stable environment. An always-updating web browser is not exactly suitable if you want stability. Since Chrome is not open source there's not much we can do about it. I guess Red Hat could maintain a fork of Chromium if they wanted; they basically do that with Firefox right now. I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure Firefox ESR 17 runs on RHEL 6 (and probably 5 as well). Once ESR 10 has reached end of life they will probably rebase onto that.
Just too bad that Photoshop and GIMP are completely different applications.
They agreed to let you run your legally purchased copies, for a while.
Wow, god job Adobe.
Because they want a microkernel. Linux is not a microkernel.
Becuase you may be interested.
Sorry, but development time is a scarce resource. We have real problems to solve.
I for one find missing support for SATA, USB and sound to be real problems.
It's doing just fine according to some benchmarks.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/06/report-internet-explorer-10-is-the-fastest-browser-on-windows-chrome-19-wins-on-mac/