"You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so." Look in the OS X software box. You get two Apple stickers. Use 'em.
lastly, why should it be up to the isp's to monitor this? how the hell is it their problem? My take... because some recent litigation has mopped the courtroom floor with the RIAA over their John Doe "discovery" tactics. This is just a different vector for the same kind of attack and Ireland is small enough for a test case... or so they thought. It's time for ISPs, the EFF, Music stores of all kinds, Universities, The EU and State Attorney Generals in the U.S. to bring suit to disband the RIAA. This is extortion, plain and simple.
This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. That's why the OS X boxed product has Apple stickers in it.
The reason the price of oil and gasoline are so high right now is the flood of speculative investors into the oil market. Lets hope the Speculative Oil Investor market melts down like the Discount Mortgage Broker market.
Being incompatible with existing PC apps is what killed IBM and their move to OS/2 - it will take Microsoft out of the game as well. Apple didn't ignore legacy operation, either. They kept compatibility for 68k binaries on PPC, they used Classic under OS X and Rosetta to run PPC code on Intel hardware. That's why Apple succeeded. That's why Microsoft will be toast if they make a significant break from their past.
The Safari for Windows EULA has language prohibiting Safari form being installed on anything but a mac. Actually, it must be installed on "Apple labeled hardware". That's what the stickers that came with your iPod are for.
Marketing, to me, is a very subtle [like a charging rhinoceros] plan to raise one's awareness of a product in order to gain eventual acceptance through repetition. Product placement in movies is marketing. A big cuddly cartoon character who smokes is marketing. The stuff that makes network television unwatchable is advertising.
Perhaps it's time to make Microsoft taste it's own pie. For years, Microsoft has built systems to make every other format they didn't own behave at least klutzy and at most inoperable. OO.org and every other developer group should shred the implementation of OOXML in different ways so it won't interchange reliably and ultimately be abandoned within a few years with a bad reputation. It might drive everyone to ONLY use MS Office for OOSML in the short term but will make long term planners wary of using a Microsoft-only product and choose ODF instead.
I found the "Red" system quite entertaining. Very slick. Trying to get root access with key combinations kept me busy whenever I wasn't playing Mahjong.
Is there a new Apple Store Manager job opening now? I'm sure sentiments are running hot and cold at Apple... weighing this potential support minefield against number of iPhones sold.
quote>See, that's the thing though. Microsoft didn't become a monopoly (by legal definition) by force. People bought their products en masse. Microsoft didn't hold a gun to their heads...it happend because the consumers CHOSE to buy their products. Consumers have no one to blame but themselves.
From someone who didn't care about PC/Windows for the longest time (and still doesn't):
The Earth Cooled
Companies started buying IBM PCs because they said "IBM" on them
Workers buy PCs for home so they can steal the software from work
Anyone else buying a computer needs a PC to remain "compatible"
Microsoft leverages compatibility fears by dismissing interoperability
Microsoft "partners" with others, modifies their products to be Windows only and makes the original technology irrelevant - "partner" tanks
Proprietary file formats allow the control of competing software - obsoleting the competition with an overnight patch
Microsoft designs land mines which make competing products seem crippled or illiterate; documents won't print right, web sites won't render right, warnings about the death of your media if you install QuickTime on your PC, network connectivity doesn't work well to a competing server...
Monopoly ensues - customer lockin - threats against vendors - destruction of interoperability - profit
These traditional avenues of abuse are starting to close for Microsoft. On the other hand, something like the iPod is not a monopoly because no iPod interacts with any other iPod. There's no need to claim you HAVE to have an iPod to remain compatible with all the other iPod users. Consumers have actually made a choice to purchase the iPod and all that comes with it. Apple even provides a migration path out of the iPod ecosystem if the consumer chooses to abandon it for something else. The exit path isn't perfect lest the RIAA come down on everyone for piracy.
"The latest version of Safari for Windows makes a mockery of end user licensing agreements by only allowing the installation of Safari for Windows on Apple labeled hardware, thereby excluding most Windows PCs." Damn! Now, where did I put those Apple stickers?
Shame? He was 90. Most of hope to live that long and leave such an amazing legacy behind. By the time Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 20 years.
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Maybe Gartner meant Microsoft's version of open source.
Being incompatible with existing PC apps is what killed IBM and their move to OS/2 - it will take Microsoft out of the game as well. Apple didn't ignore legacy operation, either. They kept compatibility for 68k binaries on PPC, they used Classic under OS X and Rosetta to run PPC code on Intel hardware. That's why Apple succeeded. That's why Microsoft will be toast if they make a significant break from their past.
Marketing, to me, is a very subtle [like a charging rhinoceros] plan to raise one's awareness of a product in order to gain eventual acceptance through repetition. Product placement in movies is marketing. A big cuddly cartoon character who smokes is marketing. The stuff that makes network television unwatchable is advertising.
Cue the goatse troll.
Nobody likes advertising. Period.
Perhaps it's time to make Microsoft taste it's own pie. For years, Microsoft has built systems to make every other format they didn't own behave at least klutzy and at most inoperable. OO.org and every other developer group should shred the implementation of OOXML in different ways so it won't interchange reliably and ultimately be abandoned within a few years with a bad reputation. It might drive everyone to ONLY use MS Office for OOSML in the short term but will make long term planners wary of using a Microsoft-only product and choose ODF instead.
There's a thought in there somewhere.
I found the "Red" system quite entertaining. Very slick. Trying to get root access with key combinations kept me busy whenever I wasn't playing Mahjong.
Is there a new Apple Store Manager job opening now? I'm sure sentiments are running hot and cold at Apple... weighing this potential support minefield against number of iPhones sold.
I've switched 50 people at work from Windows to OS X. After about two days, 10 years of the Windows comfort zone went right out the window.
From someone who didn't care about PC/Windows for the longest time (and still doesn't):
These traditional avenues of abuse are starting to close for Microsoft. On the other hand, something like the iPod is not a monopoly because no iPod interacts with any other iPod. There's no need to claim you HAVE to have an iPod to remain compatible with all the other iPod users. Consumers have actually made a choice to purchase the iPod and all that comes with it. Apple even provides a migration path out of the iPod ecosystem if the consumer chooses to abandon it for something else. The exit path isn't perfect lest the RIAA come down on everyone for piracy.
The "Apple labeled hardware" line is what [apparently] makes it legal to load OS X into a Dell. Too bad Leopard doesn't come with an Apple sticker.
Time to take Thomas Jefferson's advice?