Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 18:08 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Anyone who hangs around on websites with information about installing Mac OS X on non-Apple labelled computers has probably already encountered this report, but it's newsworthy anyway. The upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 will remove support for the Intel Atom line of processors from Mac OS X.
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What, exactly, is involved in providing support for a processor which supports all the x86 instructions that their supported hardware products do? Doesn't it come down to selectively breaking it?
How come when it comes to what big corporations do, we always hear about what "it" has the "right" to do.
(And exactly what is "it", anyway? A virtual person? Some bizarre legal entity masquerading as a person? Something else? What rights, exactly, should "it" have?)
But when it comes to what the users do, we hear so much about how we don't have a right to... whatever.
And when it comes to "rights"... how many of you folks have a department of attorneys on retainer to fight for yours? Because Apple ("it") sure has one. And is not afraid to use it. Though it does tend to send in its PR department first, as the actual deliverers of the legal threat:
http://www.osnews.com/story/21937/Apple_Tried_to_Silence_Exploding_...
Edited 2009-11-02 21:44 UTC