Apple is a far worse monopolist than Microsoft. Fortunately for the world, their monopoly is restricted to a little used niche.
I've not made any claims for you to accept or reject, I've stated easily checked facts. Apple does not allow market competition in the OS X ecosphere. Microsoft restricts competition in the Windows ecosphere, but it does exist. Disputing that is moronic.
Apple isn't taken to court because they don't have a large enough market share to exert any force. The article proposed that they might gain that market share. From their past and current actions, it's clear that they would be much more heavy handed with that power than Microsoft is.
I'm not defending Microsoft. I'm just pointing out that Apple is much, much worse. Fortunately, they haven't the power Microsoft does.
The article suggests the possibility of Apple dethroning MS from the desktop. My original comment points out that, as bad as MS is, they're far more open and responsible with their market power than Apple.
It's blindingly obvious. Apple prevents competition in hardware manufacture for OS X. It doesn't matter very much now, because hardly anyone uses OS X, but if that were to change, we'd be in a much worse situation than we are with MS. At least you can run Windows on any x86 processor, and the driver interface is well documented so that anyone can produce hardware for their software.
How many competitors are there in the OS X hardware field?
The GPL requires no management, nor does any other reasonable license, free, open, or proprietary. The honour system is perfectly functional in all ways for this problem.
I fail to see the problem with just making that up. It's ok to believe in an invisible father figure in the sky with magic powers, but not to believe you have a "degree" in theology?
Because you've already spent all your international credibility on the last crusade. You won't be getting anything more than token support from countries who will expect something of equal or greater value in return.
Until the rules apply equally to everyone, no one will take the treaty seriously. They'll give it lip service, and if they want, develop nuclear weapons with varying degrees of sublety. The US has made it clear that they will not invade countries that have nukes, so it's very much in the best interests of peace for countries in the "Axis of Eeeeevil" to develop them.
It's called a straw man because it's a fallacious argument set up to be easily knocked down. I doubt you have any idea what the social meaning of crucification was, either, because it had nothing to do with Christianity.
You'd have to look fairly hard to find someone with any idea what the social meaning of crucification was, and then they're no more likely than average to be Christian.
It's not based on BeOS, it's an independent implementation of the BeOS API. Also, Google talks aren't Google talking to people about things, they're people talking to Google about things. They just post video so the rest of us can benefit, too.
Make sure you know what you're talking about. You don't need to open up the installer to splice in a trojan. You just need to infect any executable that will be run.
If you need to do any real work with Microsoft file formats, OpenOffice won't work for you, and Microsoft intends it to stay that way. You can get by with simple files that don't need to be edited in both programs, but it isn't a long term solution. If you want to use OpenOffice, you need to commit to not using Microsoft formats.
Oh, and OpenOffice does more than just print to pdf, it exports, which retains meta information (like the table of contents).
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Apple is a far worse monopolist than Microsoft. Fortunately for the world, their monopoly is restricted to a little used niche.
I've not made any claims for you to accept or reject, I've stated easily checked facts. Apple does not allow market competition in the OS X ecosphere. Microsoft restricts competition in the Windows ecosphere, but it does exist. Disputing that is moronic.
Apple isn't taken to court because they don't have a large enough market share to exert any force. The article proposed that they might gain that market share. From their past and current actions, it's clear that they would be much more heavy handed with that power than Microsoft is.
I'm not defending Microsoft. I'm just pointing out that Apple is much, much worse. Fortunately, they haven't the power Microsoft does.
The article suggests the possibility of Apple dethroning MS from the desktop. My original comment points out that, as bad as MS is, they're far more open and responsible with their market power than Apple.
Step out of the reality distortion field.
It's blindingly obvious. Apple prevents competition in hardware manufacture for OS X. It doesn't matter very much now, because hardly anyone uses OS X, but if that were to change, we'd be in a much worse situation than we are with MS. At least you can run Windows on any x86 processor, and the driver interface is well documented so that anyone can produce hardware for their software.
How many competitors are there in the OS X hardware field?
Are you denying that Apple prevents any other company from making compatible hardware>
Apple is a far worse monopolist than Microsoft. I don't want to see hardware and software owned by one corporation.
Essjay has faith in the idea that he holds a PhD. Doesn't that qualify him in the field of theology? ;)
You weren't replying to who I thought you were.
The GPL requires no management, nor does any other reasonable license, free, open, or proprietary. The honour system is perfectly functional in all ways for this problem.
I fail to see the problem with just making that up. It's ok to believe in an invisible father figure in the sky with magic powers, but not to believe you have a "degree" in theology?
In Soviet Russia, BSD confirms it: Netcraft is dying.
And anything you can do on an OS X server, you can do on a BSD server.
Because you've already spent all your international credibility on the last crusade. You won't be getting anything more than token support from countries who will expect something of equal or greater value in return.
Until the rules apply equally to everyone, no one will take the treaty seriously. They'll give it lip service, and if they want, develop nuclear weapons with varying degrees of sublety. The US has made it clear that they will not invade countries that have nukes, so it's very much in the best interests of peace for countries in the "Axis of Eeeeevil" to develop them.
It's called a straw man because it's a fallacious argument set up to be easily knocked down. I doubt you have any idea what the social meaning of crucification was, either, because it had nothing to do with Christianity.
You'd have to look fairly hard to find someone with any idea what the social meaning of crucification was, and then they're no more likely than average to be Christian.
There's more than just a little difference in the time scales involved.
It's not based on BeOS, it's an independent implementation of the BeOS API. Also, Google talks aren't Google talking to people about things, they're people talking to Google about things. They just post video so the rest of us can benefit, too.
If you could just automatically mute anyone not old enough to drink.
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Make sure you know what you're talking about. You don't need to open up the installer to splice in a trojan. You just need to infect any executable that will be run.
Tell that to Maher Arar.
This discussion has absolutely nothing to do with that.
If you need to do any real work with Microsoft file formats, OpenOffice won't work for you, and Microsoft intends it to stay that way. You can get by with simple files that don't need to be edited in both programs, but it isn't a long term solution. If you want to use OpenOffice, you need to commit to not using Microsoft formats.
Oh, and OpenOffice does more than just print to pdf, it exports, which retains meta information (like the table of contents).
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