[OT] EULA and legality

[Richard Gaskin]

Colin Holgate wrote:

 > I actually don't mind the fact that Apple runs itself as if it was
 > a business.

As a shareholder I rather like it.

As a customer I use the dividends to shop at NewEgg and build my own 
systems. ;)

Of course I honor the Apple EULA, so the more I learn about hardware and 
enjoy choosing it myself, I heed Apple's guidance to use Ubuntu.


 > About the $20 to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I suspect that doesn't
 > fully pay for the development of OSX, and that's with Apple just
 > having to support a handful of computers. Imaging their costs if
 > they had to support every conceivable PC configuration.

I think more the former than the latter.  Support queues could be 
filtered by requiring a valid Mac serial number, just as they've always 
done to determine if the caller is still eligible for support.

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