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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Member since:2005-07-06
You don't have a right to software that will always work with the hardware it used to work with.
That is so dishonest, it must have hurt to write it. Nobody is saying that the software has to work with my computer. If it doesn't, I'm out of luck. The question is - can they forbid me from even trying it. Even in an "Emperor Steve has such beautiful clothes" world, you must admit is somewhat strange to forbid people from using Apple software on machines the user owns. Very strange.
By the way, I do not have an Apple, I do not have OSX, and I am not trying to run it on my machines. I just find it wierd in a "free" society that people could support such a tyrannical concept.
Member since:2005-09-27
Member since:2005-07-24
You don't have a right to software that will always work with the hardware it used to work with.
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
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2007-01-22
"Right now, I could buy a copy of OSX, come home to my nice computer, and in the process of installing it, find out that they arbitrarily decided to forbid me from installing it on certain of my computers."
they most certainly can. You don't have a right to software that will always work with the hardware it used to work with.