That criticism can be made just as well without violating Apple's copyright. Those manuals are private, and only provided to authorized service providers.
They don't sue "anyone they don't like", they sue those people and/or organizations that violate their trade secrets, infringe their patents or copyrights, break their contracts, or commit other acts for which there are remedies at law. They have a fiduciary duty to do so. As a shareholder, I expect no less.
You make the assumption that sending the perp's picture to the police means something.
This varies greatly by jursidiction. The SFPD found my van about a week after it was stolen. I'm sure that if you were able to tell the cops the location of your truck, it would be quite a different story.
Did anyone think Apple was doing it as a public service?
The main purposes of boot camp are: 1) keep people from destroying their Macs by trying to follow the directions they found on the web for hacking the boot sequence, and 2) allow Mac users to forego having an extra PC around to run that one windows-only app that they have to use for work.
All I need it to do is advise me of its location, and if it's not where I think it should be, I want to snap a picture of whoever's in the driver's seat. Then, I'll either fax that picture and the car's location to the cops, or just wait for the perp to leave the car and go take it back myself.
Of course, wiring a 2 or three farad capacitor into the steering column so that I could zap him unconscious would be fun, too.
Almost no one reads those 50 page EULAs, so there is no "mutual consideration" in that case, either!
I see that you don't have a clue what mutual consideration is.
Mutual consideration means that each party to a contract derives a benefit from the agreement. Without mutual consideration, there is no contract. When you buy a software license, your benefit is the use of the software, the seller's benefit is the payment you make for that license. Get the picture?
Simply proclaiming "if you read this you owe me money" is not a contract.
Another reason why this might well not work is that if you go on the site it doesn't even seem to work in Linux
I'm sure you can play.mov files if you just spend a day or so reasearching what's available that passes ideological requirements, and then download it, build it, debug it, configure it for your GPU...
Certainly, as a Linux user and programmer, OS/X has nothing for me at all.
Indeed, the Mac offers none of the sense of accomplishment that comes from chasing down drivers, configuring your kernel, tweaking your system to show your Aw3s0m3 1337 Linux mastery.
As a Mac user and developer, I just have to be satisfied with a reliable system that's got amazing development facilities like Cocoa and Quartz Composer.
Does this mean that Apple is ready to go on the offensive and increase its marketshare?
Maybe, but they really need to have a complete set of replacements for the MS office apps to make some serious headway. It would be very easy for the evil empire to just neglect to fix compatibility bugs between Mac and Windows versions, and introduce some serious anti-mac pressure again.
If the music was available without the DRM, people would still play it on their iPods. It was already the market leader before the iTMS opened for business, just as it is in countries where the iTMS isn't yet available.
What the record companies don't understand is that they shouldn't fuck with something that works. Several of the also-rans offered all kinds of variability in the pricing, the number of times you could play a track, how many MP3 players you could copy it to, whether you could burn it to a CD, etc, etc. The iTMS beats them all, hands-down.
If Apple withdraws the iTMS from the French market, then people in France will just go back to ripping their own CDs, or getting them from P2P networks, and they'll still play them all on their iPods.
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Well, thanks for the link. I was about to forward it to someone in Apple's legal department, but it looks like they're way ahead of me.
-jcr
Yeah, I worked there, and I'm a shareholder. I might work there again someday. So what?
-jcr
As a shareholder, I expect them to stop this bull shit.
Then propose it at the next shareholder meeting, and expect me to vote against you.
-jcr
If their manual could be used to demonstrate that the company had discriminatory labor practices
Which is not the case, so your straw man is rather short on stuffing, isn't he?
-jcr
That criticism can be made just as well without violating Apple's copyright. Those manuals are private, and only provided to authorized service providers.
-jcr
This behavior, suing anyone they don't like,
They don't sue "anyone they don't like", they sue those people and/or organizations that violate their trade secrets, infringe their patents or copyrights, break their contracts, or commit other acts for which there are remedies at law. They have a fiduciary duty to do so. As a shareholder, I expect no less.
-jcr
This is not a "company's private information" but the service manual.
Apple service manuals are private information. If you don't believe me, try to order one.
-jcr
You make the assumption that sending the perp's picture to the police means something.
This varies greatly by jursidiction. The SFPD found my van about a week after it was stolen. I'm sure that if you were able to tell the cops the location of your truck, it would be quite a different story.
-jcr
Did anyone think Apple was doing it as a public service?
The main purposes of boot camp are: 1) keep people from destroying their Macs by trying to follow the directions they found on the web for hacking the boot sequence, and 2) allow Mac users to forego having an extra PC around to run that one windows-only app that they have to use for work.
-jcr
As well, Imagine getting in an accident, You'd get electrocuted,
It's more likely that if he capacitor was breached, it would arc internally and discharge through the more direct path.
-jcr
All I need it to do is advise me of its location, and if it's not where I think it should be, I want to snap a picture of whoever's in the driver's seat. Then, I'll either fax that picture and the car's location to the cops, or just wait for the perp to leave the car and go take it back myself.
Of course, wiring a 2 or three farad capacitor into the steering column so that I could zap him unconscious would be fun, too.
-jcr
I know this wouldn't hold up in court.
Exactly.
-jcr
Almost no one reads those 50 page EULAs, so there is no "mutual consideration" in that case, either!
I see that you don't have a clue what mutual consideration is.
Mutual consideration means that each party to a contract derives a benefit from the agreement. Without mutual consideration, there is no contract. When you buy a software license, your benefit is the use of the software, the seller's benefit is the payment you make for that license. Get the picture?
Simply proclaiming "if you read this you owe me money" is not a contract.
-jcr
inevitable, because Windows is vastly more popular and greater a target. ..not to mention being very poorly designed in the first place.
-jcr
Even if Apple puts something in their EULA and people agree to it, that doesn't mean it is okay when they do it.
Whether you think it's "ok" or not, it's a contract.
By the way, each time you read any part of the above text you automatically agree to pay me $1,000.
Guess again.. Take a course on contract law, and pay particular attention to the concept of "mutual consideration".
-jcr
I don't have a machine that it will run on.
IIRC, the disk I have was distributed to WWDC attendees in '96. I got it from a colleague who was getting rid of a bunch of stuff from his office.
-jcr
If I hadn't seen a beta, I would claim that Vista is vaporware.
I have a beta of Apple's Copland.
-jcr
Actually, you can do that and more if you REALLY wanted to. Darwin is open source.
Sure, but it's not the same when you start out with something that's already working with your hardware.
-jcr
The threating letter I received is also on my Slashdot journal.
That kind of thing could easily inspire me to go medieval on that spamming git. "Blue security is forcing us"? What a load of bullshit!
-jcr
PC (I use the term in its original context, Personal Computer,
Bah! PC means Printed Circuit. Always did, always will.
-jcr
Woah.. Sure you want to make such a radical suggestion? ;-)
-jcr
Another reason why this might well not work is that if you go on the site it doesn't even seem to work in Linux
.mov files if you just spend a day or so reasearching what's available that passes ideological requirements, and then download it, build it, debug it, configure it for your GPU...
I'm sure you can play
Well, that's life with Linux.
-jcr
Certainly, as a Linux user and programmer, OS/X has nothing for me at all.
Indeed, the Mac offers none of the sense of accomplishment that comes from chasing down drivers, configuring your kernel, tweaking your system to show your Aw3s0m3 1337 Linux mastery.
As a Mac user and developer, I just have to be satisfied with a reliable system that's got amazing development facilities like Cocoa and Quartz Composer.
-jcr
Does this mean that Apple is ready to go on the offensive and increase its marketshare?
Maybe, but they really need to have a complete set of replacements for the MS office apps to make some serious headway. It would be very easy for the evil empire to just neglect to fix compatibility bugs between Mac and Windows versions, and introduce some serious anti-mac pressure again.
-jcr
If the music was available without the DRM, people would still play it on their iPods. It was already the market leader before the iTMS opened for business, just as it is in countries where the iTMS isn't yet available.
What the record companies don't understand is that they shouldn't fuck with something that works. Several of the also-rans offered all kinds of variability in the pricing, the number of times you could play a track, how many MP3 players you could copy it to, whether you could burn it to a CD, etc, etc. The iTMS beats them all, hands-down.
If Apple withdraws the iTMS from the French market, then people in France will just go back to ripping their own CDs, or getting them from P2P networks, and they'll still play them all on their iPods.
-jcr