Unfortunately quite a lot of software requires admin privileges to run.
Ever heard of SUID?
99% of the time there is always a way to run it in an unpriveleged account with some *drumroll* work.
The "needs to run as admin" thing is usually due to laziness and makes tech support calls easier to handle for $8/hr retard phone "technicians" reading from a script. This is VERY prevalent in Windows-land. There is almost always a way to fix it with some digging.
I had an issue like this in a Terminal Services environment and I'll be damned if I'm going to give 50 users Admin rights. I found the issue, reported it to the vendor and they blew me off and still tell everyone it needs Admin rights.
In the land of REAL operating systems however, most of the time this is a non-issue or if you have to, you use the SUID bit.
I don't allow my users to have admin privs on their desktops but they all have thumb drives. That's suicide. It becomes a maintenance nightmare and I can't stand it when I go to a user's desktop and find 500 IE toolbars and 20 icons in the System Tray. Get a clue. I hope you're not a network admin.
All my users have unprivileged accounts. Windows users are further restricted via Group Policy.
Yes, and how much must you pay for that freedom? Why bother when there are just as capable open devices that actually let you run the code of your choosing without it needing to be blessed? Why shouldn't I be able to keep a copy of an app on my Linux box, copy them to an SD card or the device and simply run them?
I want to buy a Phone/PDA, not rent an Apple Interactive Entertainment and Communications device at high premiums.
The iPhone is neat but with these restrictions, the iPhone is the toy.
Which isn't a simple process and why bother when you can deploy your app on a truly open platform and not have to worry about it. I shouldn't have to beg Apple for ways around restrictions for a device that belongs to ME.
The iPhone also has very cumbersome input and is available from exactly one vendor. Apple. If Apple pulls another Newton one day than you are screwed.
I was very screwed by Apple killing the Newton and had a lot of money and time put into it with nowhere else to turn when Apple pulled the plug. I love OS X and will still buy a mac here and there but as far as their other product lineups go, they are useless consumer bling. The iPod classic is kinda nice but I can do without everything else.
When I buy a product, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. I shouldn't have to hack, unlock, jailbreak or bastardize it to be completely functional.
When it comes to VM's I use for interactive work like running Win32 desktop apps or gaming, I prefer Parallels Desktop 5 on OS X. It even has WDDM drivers for Winblows. Very slick, integrates well with OS X and has good enough 3D performance to play some games.
When it comes to virtual servers, I use VirtualBox where scalability isn't a HUGE concern. I also use it extensively in the classroom since it's quite free and not hard for students to get ahold of and feel comfortable using it. The 3D performance is awful and it's not as fast as parallels but it's solid and a good workhorse.
If I were hosting 50 VM's, I'd probably go with VMWare ESX but their desktop offerings VMWare Workstation and VMWare Fusion (OSX) have failed to impress me much. Not saying they suck but Parallels 5 is noticeably faster, more stable (for both host and guest) and integrates better with the Host OS for desktop use.
All are good products but I prefer Parallels on OSX, VBox on everything else. If they develop a Windows/Linux version of Parallels 5 that is just as good, I'd probably buy it.
One interesting point though, why does VBox support for FreeBSD guests suck so horribly? You'd think a fairly open VM would have better support for open source guests. Parallels supports FreeBSD in a much better fashion.
Hygiene comes into play as well. I'm a smoker but my equipment is cleaned regularly and I change my home air filters often. I have never had equipment that was that bad off.
You have run across a lot of smokers with poor sanitation and cleaning practices.
I have not had one machine fail due to smoking-related damage but I have repaired many machines from DIRTY homes with chain smokers.
If the smoke CAUSED the failure, I can see denying the claim, otherwise it's wrong and likely illegal if they opt not to repair or replace.
I'm even farther right. I don't believe in bans in private restaurants, those people can choose to go elsewhere and vote with their wallet. If the OWNER wants to ban smoking in his restaurant, I'm all for it and I'll vote with MY wallet and go elsewhere. No hard feelings even. I can sympathize with non-smokers who want a 100% smoke-free environment. Just don't mandate it for every business to follow suit. If enough people cared they should have lobbied the RESTAURANTS to eliminate their smoking sections not abuse the lawmaking bodies to ban something perfectly legal.
I don't eat at restaurants which banned smoking in my town unless I'm meeting someone there. In the city I work in which banned smoking in private businesses, I don't eat at real restaurants. Period. I'll just get fast food to go.
I don't expect them to change their mind in those places in my town that eliminated their smoking sections. I respect their stance and I just go elsewhere. When you take away my ability to go elsewhere nearby, I get pissed.
In my own home, I'll do what I want within reason (murder is out obviously), whenever I want and with whoever I want. My house is the United States of ME (and my family of course). Anyone who feels otherwise can kiss my ass.
I'm all for gay marriage BTW. The Repubs who are against it are hypocrites in my opinion. Chest-thumping and cries of freedom yet they want to oppress scientists, intellectuals, atheists and homosexuals. I'm a devout atheist AND a libertarian. I'd love to see Palin publicly humiliated and stripped of her ability to serve in public office. Religion has no place in public office. Period. That's a private matter. Don't think I'm an Obama fan by any means. He pisses me off for other reasons. His stance on gun control is appalling. The liberals can have my bullets.... minus the brass. For free even.
Will there ever be a candidate crying for freedom and small government that isn't a bible-thumping, batshit-crazy whackjob? I don't want someone in office who ignores facts or twists them to try to make them fit the fairy tales their mommy and daddy made them sit through on Sundays. Period. That's like killing in the name of the tooth fairy.
And who the f**k are you to call me lazy and unproductive? I get more done in a day than most IT monkeys get done in a week. Douchebag. Those smoke breaks act as impromptu meetings and a chance to reflect on what I'm doing.
Slashdot and Facebook cause more loss of productivity in my environment than smoking ever could.
I also used to run a motorcycle shop. You should see what those PCs look like after a while, especially the one that's used to run the dynamometer. (Badly running vehicles spit out a lot of soot, not to mention all the other residues from various vapors from cleaning chemicals)
So... exclude everything else that could possibly harm the PC, and you have a point. Otherwise, you're picking one little thing out of many simply because the cause has become a socially unacceptable behaviour.
I agree and I feel your pain with the motorcycle shop. I was network admin for an auto service chain and one of the first things we did was replace every PC in the tech bays with thin clients w/ LCD's and rubber keyboards. They used those for Mitchell1 and Alldata, the repair order system, etc. Worked out great and TCO was much lower in the long run. The main location was large, about 30 bays. Wasn't really an option for the alignment machine, emissions machine or dyno. When they had PC's in every bay it was a nightmare. Most never lasted more than 2-6 months before a major failure so we'd blow'em out with a compressor, clean'em up some and off for warranty service they went. Rarely were they ever denied.
Gee, I don't know..... most smokers. Including me.
I go outside most the time but I still smoke in my house if it's really cold out or something which is rare in SC. It's my house, who are you to judge? My 6 yr old son is even kind enough to remind me I'm killing myself on a daily basis.
They could sell thousands more iphones if it weren't for the App Store. Most people I know who decided not to get one was due to the App Store being the ONLY venue to get software and Apple dictating what you are allowed to run on your own device you bought and paid for.
I'm not getting an iPhone because it's tied to the App Store and I shouldn't have to hack my phone every few months just to install the apps THAT I WANT. Apple is under the impression that I'm renting the device from them and I have to play by their rules to use it. F**k them. They try that with the Mac and I'll go back to using FreeBSD as my primary OS and build Hackintosh's for anyone I know that's curious about a Mac. I will happily cross the line to hurt them at that point. I don't need laws on my side to do so. I don't owe Apple s**t. I gave THEM money. They don't get to impose rules on something I pay for or judge my habits whether they are healthy or not.
Now as far as this warranty claim goes, if the smoke CLOGGED the fans to the point of not working I think that qualifies as abuse. If they can prove the smoking killed the machine, I can see it. If not, should they decide not to work on it, they need to replace it. It's in the warranty paperwork. Repair OR REPLACE.
I'm a smoker but I smoke outside a lot of the time and I clean my machines regularly.
Cat and dog hair don't cause cancer. Smoking does,
Snorting lines of laser printer toner or breathing it can cause lung cancer as quick as cigarettes but Apple didn't get a free pass to deny LaserWriter warranty claims due to ruptured toner cartridges. Neither does HP.
This is asinine and stupid. I hope someone rakes Apple through the coals for this. It's a pity because I really like OS X and it's the only mainstream OS with good commercial app availability that isn't a malware infested, subpar, buggy piece of shit. Being a UNIX variant is the icing on the cake.
I've seen some disgusting machines in my time but I've just put some rubber gloves on and called it a day. The OSHA claim is a farce.
I would have been happier if Apple bought NeXT and told Steve to take a hike with his golden parachute. OS X is the brainchild of the NeXT engineers, not his RDF or "vision". He may have "motivated" them by treating them like underachieving shit children but that was about it. I hate Apple as a company but I like OS X and will continue to use it. I'll never use my Apple warranty anyway, I'll just order a part and fix the damn thing because I don't feel like waiting.
If you can afford the Adobe CS suite, you can afford a mac. CS4 costs more than a Macbook. Oh, you mean you want to PIRATE CS4. Oh ok, carry on.
Apple's newer $600 mini is actually a pretty sweet little machine. The $999 Macbook is no slouch either. Both have DDR3 RAM, a GeForce 9400M and Penryn C2D's on a 1066mhz FSB. More than adequate.
Hell, Win7 running in a Parallels 5 VM w/ 1.5GB RAM and 1 core thrown at it gets significantly better "Winblows Experience" numbers (I know, a poor benchmark) than my daughters dual-core Athlon64-based Compaq F500 running Win7 natively w/ 2GB RAM.
Compared to a TRULY EQUIVELANT PC, with the same components, Apple is actually cheaper. At least with the lower end. The higher-end Macbook Pros and the Mac Pro are a bit expensive though.
I've had it running in a Parallels VM on my Macbook (2009) for about a month. Runs fairly well. Runs even better under Parallels 5 and I even get Aero support. The BS Winblows Experience benchmark numbers in a VM with only one core thrown at it are better than my daughters dual-core Compaq F500 laptop.
Windows 7 certainly "sucks less". It is still Windows. It's still problematic, annoying and vulnerable but it does indeed....suck less.
In my opinion, it is certainly no match for OSX 10.6 on most fronts. Or straight BSD on others. But I can stomach using it for more than 10 minutes which is something I couldn't say about XP or Vista.
It was a shameless CP/M knock-off produced by some hole-in-the-wall called Seattle Computer Products. MS bought it for $50,000 and proceeded to destroy the brilliant company known as Digital Research who developed the real thing (CP/M, later DR-DOS). DR also had a better GUI environment than early versions of Windows called GEM. I remember GEM fondly on my Atari ST. Ran it on a 286 for a while too.
I would much rather have an ARM netbook than that POS Atom and its power-sucking chipset anyway. Especially if it ran real OS X and not a stripped iPhone-like OS tied to that obnoxious app store.
I'd happily run Linux or BSD on ARM as well though. I don't believe in x86-everywhere. x86 sucks, it's just had enough R&D dollars thrown at it to make it fairly quick and cheap to produce. Hell, I'd much rather Apple had stuck with PPC.
Huh... that's odd. I transfer 2-6GB files to and from our Win2k3 servers here at work all the time using SMB. Smoke crack much?
BTW, ever heard of Macports and Fink. Easy to fix the issue. I see Linux distros and installs with outdated crap all the time. Especially in embedded devices.
You said the kernel sources weren't available and well, you were mistaken.
The other stuff really IS closed, always has been and it makes sense. Apple is a software/hardware BUSINESS in direct competition with MS. The bits that are closed really are very innovative and impressive and they don't want to give it away. That's their choice.
They don't want your contributions to it, which I doubt you would make anyway (most open source users do NOT contribute, they just whine and expect free support) and they don't want to give it to you for free. Wah, go cry about it or simply don't use it. Just because they don't follow the GNU Freetard business model doesn't mean they are screwing you. They really do screw iPhone users AND developers though. Those guys have a legitimate beef.
I love open source but I have respect for closed things as well. I am NOT a GPL-fan however. And really, I prefer BSD over Linux anyway.
If your license and OS are so great, why are you even whining about Apple not being open? Because you want their goodies for free. Just use Linux and STFU.
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Unfortunately quite a lot of software requires admin privileges to run.
Ever heard of SUID?
99% of the time there is always a way to run it in an unpriveleged account with some *drumroll* work.
The "needs to run as admin" thing is usually due to laziness and makes tech support calls easier to handle for $8/hr retard phone "technicians" reading from a script. This is VERY prevalent in Windows-land. There is almost always a way to fix it with some digging.
I had an issue like this in a Terminal Services environment and I'll be damned if I'm going to give 50 users Admin rights. I found the issue, reported it to the vendor and they blew me off and still tell everyone it needs Admin rights.
In the land of REAL operating systems however, most of the time this is a non-issue or if you have to, you use the SUID bit.
I don't allow my users to have admin privs on their desktops but they all have thumb drives. That's suicide. It becomes a maintenance nightmare and I can't stand it when I go to a user's desktop and find 500 IE toolbars and 20 icons in the System Tray. Get a clue. I hope you're not a network admin.
All my users have unprivileged accounts. Windows users are further restricted via Group Policy.
Yes, and how much must you pay for that freedom? Why bother when there are just as capable open devices that actually let you run the code of your choosing without it needing to be blessed? Why shouldn't I be able to keep a copy of an app on my Linux box, copy them to an SD card or the device and simply run them?
I want to buy a Phone/PDA, not rent an Apple Interactive Entertainment and Communications device at high premiums.
The iPhone is neat but with these restrictions, the iPhone is the toy.
Which isn't a simple process and why bother when you can deploy your app on a truly open platform and not have to worry about it. I shouldn't have to beg Apple for ways around restrictions for a device that belongs to ME.
The iPhone also has very cumbersome input and is available from exactly one vendor. Apple. If Apple pulls another Newton one day than you are screwed.
I was very screwed by Apple killing the Newton and had a lot of money and time put into it with nowhere else to turn when Apple pulled the plug. I love OS X and will still buy a mac here and there but as far as their other product lineups go, they are useless consumer bling. The iPod classic is kinda nice but I can do without everything else.
When I buy a product, I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. I shouldn't have to hack, unlock, jailbreak or bastardize it to be completely functional.
Even better for project management: OmniPlan
The Omni group has some great stuff.
When it comes to VM's I use for interactive work like running Win32 desktop apps or gaming, I prefer Parallels Desktop 5 on OS X. It even has WDDM drivers for Winblows. Very slick, integrates well with OS X and has good enough 3D performance to play some games.
When it comes to virtual servers, I use VirtualBox where scalability isn't a HUGE concern. I also use it extensively in the classroom since it's quite free and not hard for students to get ahold of and feel comfortable using it. The 3D performance is awful and it's not as fast as parallels but it's solid and a good workhorse.
If I were hosting 50 VM's, I'd probably go with VMWare ESX but their desktop offerings VMWare Workstation and VMWare Fusion (OSX) have failed to impress me much. Not saying they suck but Parallels 5 is noticeably faster, more stable (for both host and guest) and integrates better with the Host OS for desktop use.
All are good products but I prefer Parallels on OSX, VBox on everything else. If they develop a Windows/Linux version of Parallels 5 that is just as good, I'd probably buy it.
One interesting point though, why does VBox support for FreeBSD guests suck so horribly? You'd think a fairly open VM would have better support for open source guests. Parallels supports FreeBSD in a much better fashion.
I think it's time I start an out of warranty mac repair shop and stock up on PCB cleaner and rubber gloves.
Hygiene comes into play as well. I'm a smoker but my equipment is cleaned regularly and I change my home air filters often. I have never had equipment that was that bad off.
You have run across a lot of smokers with poor sanitation and cleaning practices.
I have not had one machine fail due to smoking-related damage but I have repaired many machines from DIRTY homes with chain smokers.
If the smoke CAUSED the failure, I can see denying the claim, otherwise it's wrong and likely illegal if they opt not to repair or replace.
I'm even farther right. I don't believe in bans in private restaurants, those people can choose to go elsewhere and vote with their wallet. If the OWNER wants to ban smoking in his restaurant, I'm all for it and I'll vote with MY wallet and go elsewhere. No hard feelings even. I can sympathize with non-smokers who want a 100% smoke-free environment. Just don't mandate it for every business to follow suit. If enough people cared they should have lobbied the RESTAURANTS to eliminate their smoking sections not abuse the lawmaking bodies to ban something perfectly legal.
I don't eat at restaurants which banned smoking in my town unless I'm meeting someone there. In the city I work in which banned smoking in private businesses, I don't eat at real restaurants. Period. I'll just get fast food to go.
I don't expect them to change their mind in those places in my town that eliminated their smoking sections. I respect their stance and I just go elsewhere. When you take away my ability to go elsewhere nearby, I get pissed.
In my own home, I'll do what I want within reason (murder is out obviously), whenever I want and with whoever I want. My house is the United States of ME (and my family of course). Anyone who feels otherwise can kiss my ass.
I'm all for gay marriage BTW. The Repubs who are against it are hypocrites in my opinion. Chest-thumping and cries of freedom yet they want to oppress scientists, intellectuals, atheists and homosexuals. I'm a devout atheist AND a libertarian. I'd love to see Palin publicly humiliated and stripped of her ability to serve in public office. Religion has no place in public office. Period. That's a private matter. Don't think I'm an Obama fan by any means. He pisses me off for other reasons. His stance on gun control is appalling. The liberals can have my bullets.... minus the brass. For free even.
Will there ever be a candidate crying for freedom and small government that isn't a bible-thumping, batshit-crazy whackjob? I don't want someone in office who ignores facts or twists them to try to make them fit the fairy tales their mommy and daddy made them sit through on Sundays. Period. That's like killing in the name of the tooth fairy.
Isn't that why we pay over $3/pack in taxes?
And who the f**k are you to call me lazy and unproductive? I get more done in a day than most IT monkeys get done in a week. Douchebag. Those smoke breaks act as impromptu meetings and a chance to reflect on what I'm doing.
Slashdot and Facebook cause more loss of productivity in my environment than smoking ever could.
Man, I wish I had mod points. Well said.
I also used to run a motorcycle shop. You should see what those PCs look like after a while, especially the one that's used to run the dynamometer. (Badly running vehicles spit out a lot of soot, not to mention all the other residues from various vapors from cleaning chemicals)
So ... exclude everything else that could possibly harm the PC, and you have a point. Otherwise, you're picking one little thing out of many simply because the cause has become a socially unacceptable behaviour.
I agree and I feel your pain with the motorcycle shop. I was network admin for an auto service chain and one of the first things we did was replace every PC in the tech bays with thin clients w/ LCD's and rubber keyboards. They used those for Mitchell1 and Alldata, the repair order system, etc. Worked out great and TCO was much lower in the long run. The main location was large, about 30 bays. Wasn't really an option for the alignment machine, emissions machine or dyno. When they had PC's in every bay it was a nightmare. Most never lasted more than 2-6 months before a major failure so we'd blow'em out with a compressor, clean'em up some and off for warranty service they went. Rarely were they ever denied.
Gee, I don't know..... most smokers. Including me.
I go outside most the time but I still smoke in my house if it's really cold out or something which is rare in SC. It's
my house, who are you to judge? My 6 yr old son is even kind enough to remind me I'm killing myself on a daily basis.
They could sell thousands more iphones if it weren't for the App Store. Most people I know who decided not to get one was due to the App Store being the ONLY venue to get software and Apple dictating what you are allowed to run on your own device you bought and paid for.
I'm not getting an iPhone because it's tied to the App Store and I shouldn't have to hack my phone every few months just to install the apps THAT I WANT. Apple is under the impression that I'm renting the device from them and I have to play by their rules to use it. F**k them. They try that with the Mac and I'll go back to using FreeBSD as my primary OS and build Hackintosh's for anyone I know that's curious about a Mac. I will happily cross the line to hurt them at that point. I don't need laws on my side to do so. I don't owe Apple s**t. I gave THEM money. They don't get to impose rules on something I pay for or judge my habits whether they are healthy or not.
Now as far as this warranty claim goes, if the smoke CLOGGED the fans to the point of not working I think that qualifies as abuse. If they can prove the smoking killed the machine, I can see it. If not, should they decide not to work on it, they need to replace it. It's in the warranty paperwork. Repair OR REPLACE.
I'm a smoker but I smoke outside a lot of the time and I clean my machines regularly.
Cat and dog hair don't cause cancer. Smoking does,
Snorting lines of laser printer toner or breathing it can cause lung cancer as quick as cigarettes but Apple didn't get a free pass to deny LaserWriter warranty claims due to ruptured toner cartridges. Neither does HP.
This is asinine and stupid. I hope someone rakes Apple through the coals for this. It's a pity because I really like OS X and it's the only mainstream OS with good commercial app availability that isn't a malware infested, subpar, buggy piece of shit. Being a UNIX variant is the icing on the cake.
I've seen some disgusting machines in my time but I've just put some rubber gloves on and called it a day. The OSHA claim is a farce.
I would have been happier if Apple bought NeXT and told Steve to take a hike with his golden parachute. OS X is the brainchild of the NeXT engineers, not his RDF or "vision". He may have "motivated" them by treating them like underachieving shit children but that was about it. I hate Apple as a company but I like OS X and will continue to use it. I'll never use my Apple warranty anyway, I'll just order a part and fix the damn thing because I don't feel like waiting.
If you can afford the Adobe CS suite, you can afford a mac. CS4 costs more than a Macbook. Oh, you mean you want to PIRATE CS4. Oh ok, carry on.
Apple's newer $600 mini is actually a pretty sweet little machine. The $999 Macbook is no slouch either. Both have DDR3 RAM, a GeForce 9400M and Penryn C2D's on a 1066mhz FSB. More than adequate.
Hell, Win7 running in a Parallels 5 VM w/ 1.5GB RAM and 1 core thrown at it gets significantly better "Winblows Experience" numbers (I know, a poor benchmark) than my daughters dual-core Athlon64-based Compaq F500 running Win7 natively w/ 2GB RAM.
Compared to a TRULY EQUIVELANT PC, with the same components, Apple is actually cheaper. At least with the lower end. The higher-end Macbook Pros and the Mac Pro are a bit expensive though.
2D graphics acceleration on microcomputers starting with the Lisa then :P
The first ready to use pre-packaged, pre-assembled personal computer. The Apple II.
I've had it running in a Parallels VM on my Macbook (2009) for about a month. Runs fairly well. Runs even better under Parallels 5 and I even get Aero support. The BS Winblows Experience benchmark numbers in a VM with only one core thrown at it are better than my daughters dual-core Compaq F500 laptop.
Windows 7 certainly "sucks less". It is still Windows. It's still problematic, annoying and vulnerable but it does indeed....suck less.
In my opinion, it is certainly no match for OSX 10.6 on most fronts. Or straight BSD on others. But I can stomach using it for more than 10 minutes which is something I couldn't say about XP or Vista.
It was a shameless CP/M knock-off produced by some hole-in-the-wall called Seattle Computer Products. MS bought it for $50,000 and proceeded to destroy the brilliant company known as Digital Research who developed the real thing (CP/M, later DR-DOS). DR also had a better GUI environment than early versions of Windows called GEM. I remember GEM fondly on my Atari ST. Ran it on a 286 for a while too.
I would much rather have an ARM netbook than that POS Atom and its power-sucking chipset anyway. Especially if it ran real OS X and not a stripped iPhone-like OS tied to that obnoxious app store.
I'd happily run Linux or BSD on ARM as well though. I don't believe in x86-everywhere. x86 sucks, it's just had enough R&D dollars thrown at it to make it fairly quick and cheap to produce. Hell, I'd much rather Apple had stuck with PPC.
Huh... that's odd. I transfer 2-6GB files to and from our Win2k3 servers here at work all the time using SMB. Smoke crack much?
BTW, ever heard of Macports and Fink. Easy to fix the issue. I see Linux distros and installs with outdated crap all the time. Especially in embedded devices.
Also, what if my bug is "It doesn't work on Atom"?
That's only a bug if you bought an Apple machine with an Atom CPU.
You said the kernel sources weren't available and well, you were mistaken.
The other stuff really IS closed, always has been and it makes sense. Apple is a software/hardware BUSINESS in direct competition with MS. The bits that are closed really are very innovative and impressive and they don't want to give it away. That's their choice.
They don't want your contributions to it, which I doubt you would make anyway (most open source users do NOT contribute, they just whine and expect free support) and they don't want to give it to you for free. Wah, go cry about it or simply don't use it. Just because they don't follow the GNU Freetard business model doesn't mean they are screwing you. They really do screw iPhone users AND developers though. Those guys have a legitimate beef.
I love open source but I have respect for closed things as well. I am NOT a GPL-fan however. And really, I prefer BSD over Linux anyway.
If your license and OS are so great, why are you even whining about Apple not being open? Because you want their goodies for free. Just use Linux and STFU.
Who modded this troll? This guy is right.