Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 19, 2003 03:55 AM
"Furthmore, Apple is even worse because the've taken a free product (FreeBSD) and slapped their single user proprietary GUI on top and shipped it on proprietary hardware. "
Dude - if you want to hate Microsoft, fine. They go out of their way to prevent others from competing in the market. But Apple is a completely different story.
Yes, they built their own GUI and yes, it's on their own hardware. So what? That's their right in a free society. They never tried to stop anyone else from doing the same thing. That's called competition and it's what the global economy is based on. If they don't want to give away OSX that's their choice and if you don't want to buy OSX then that's your choice.
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Re:Microsoft is Evil
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 19, 2003 03:55 AMDude - if you want to hate Microsoft, fine. They go out of their way to prevent others from competing in the market. But Apple is a completely different story.
Yes, they built their own GUI and yes, it's on their own hardware. So what? That's their right in a free society. They never tried to stop anyone else from doing the same thing. That's called competition and it's what the global economy is based on. If they don't want to give away OSX that's their choice and if you don't want to buy OSX then that's your choice.
The world may be free but it's not '$free'.
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