[OT] EULA and legality

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> I would venture to guess that Apple's justification for not allowing
> purchasers of OS X to run it on hardware of their own choice is that the
> price of the Apple-branded computer effectively subsidizes part of the cost
> of the OS.

"part" ?

Apple is charging less for Lion and Mountain lion than MS did for DOS
thirty years ago.

Apple is a hardware company, and writes the software to make their
hardware useful.  They were criticized for this unwise model that
would drive them to bankruptcy while MS took over the world over their
unwillingness to release it for standard PC hardware . . .

Anyway, Apple isn't so much charging for the OS as it is collecting
something to cover the tech support calls for its installation.

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