[OT] EULA and legality

[Richmond]

On 09/09/2012 08:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 9/9/12 9:31 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>
>> 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'm sure there are many factors involved, but I think one of the 
> primary reasons Apple doesn't want the OS used on other hardware is to 
> avoid the mess that Microsoft got themselves into by licensing to any 
> PC distributor. By retaining control of both software and hardware, it 
> "just works" -- at least, most of the time.
>

Funny how Linux distros don't seem to get in "the mess" regardless.