Posted on 11/23/2005 7:03:10 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
You were replying to a comment I made four months ago, thus disproving your own point.
Macs are no longer over-priced?? ;)
I meant to reply back then to several posts. My work schedule has been so hectic until now that freeping had to be put on the back burner.
hahaha, resurrecting the old eh?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could go along with that.
But remember one of the UNIX sayings, "do one thing and do it well". So why not let driver writers come in and..... write drivers! lol
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GE hasn't had much of an effect on this discussion. :-P
I'm unclear on that. got some links to back up the claim?
I know that salon did a piece about gates' liberalism, but that's different.
So exactly what is the danger?
The Old comment refers to what?
When did that happen?
The last post on this before yours was november 2005......
Any talk of price has to come with user and usage conditions and requirements, or else it's useless. Mac beats PC in many scenarios, loses in others.
I do have a habit of reviving old threads....see my tagline.
Obviously the loss of US technology, security, income, and return on investment.
Using your own home and possessions in an analogy works just fine. Do you give those possessions away to your neighbors for free? Do you give them the keys to your car, knowing full well they're just going to take it, repaint it, and sell it to someone else without a dime back to you? Do you give everyone in your town the blueprints to your home's security system? How about not just giving those things away to not just people you know, but people you know don't like you, and might even want to kill you if they got the chace?
Of course not, at least not any mentally sane person. But for some reason you want to do the same with software, just give it away, for free, to every two bit dictator that wants a copy.
I guess I could pick up his slack.
"Buncha no-good Stallmanites selling out our red blooded American IT profits to the dirty red Chinese who rename it "Pinko Commie Linux" and turn around and sell it without a dime back to the United States! We've got to nip it! Nip it in the bud!"
Ugh. I feel so dirty now.
Rats. Guess we got the real thing after all.
So much for peace and quiet...the baby's awake.
"Do you give those possessions away to your neighbors for free? Do you give them the keys to your car, knowing full well they're just going to take it, repaint it, and sell it to someone else without a dime back to you?"
Of course not. If I did that, I'd no longer retain the original product for my own use. Not the case with software, which can be copied and distributed without diminishing the use of it. In other words, flawed analogy.
"Do you give everyone in your town the blueprints to your home's security system? How about not just giving those things away to not just people you know, but people you know don't like you, and might even want to kill you if they got the chace?"
Hmm...would you sell them to those people instead?
The analogy is close enough, and if you want to take it literal then infinite copies of your house reduce it's value to practical zero.
Stallman is a whacko leftist despite your constant defenses of him and his legal team, who wants all software to be free, no patents, and taxes charged instead.
He's so far out left his mantra is called "The GNU Manifesto", his gimmick is called "copyleft" verses normal "copyright", yet 75% of all open source uses his license, and the direct result is free software from the US being legally given to each and every despote regime on the planet.
You can rant against me all you want, in protection of this fruitcake, but it only puts you in his same class. Funny thing is you probably take that as a compliment, LOL.
From what I have seen of OS-X (I have 10.2 on an older G3 Beige - Old PalmOS development workstation I kept for grins and giggles), they really nailed the intuitive interface part.
The Linux community would do well to pay attention to what they're doing with the desktop.
That said, they're still this side of Neiman Marcus when it comes to the inflated prices bit. You are paying quite a premium for the name and I don't see how they can continue doing it with the new Intel architectures.
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