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Authored by: The Cornishman on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT

I guess (tell me if I'm wrong) that your facility to buy OS-less white boxes
means that later on you are loading Linux, or possibly FreeBSD onto them?

The only reason that works is that the copyright owners in those Operating
Systems licence their work suitably, and are willing to take action against
people who use the said work in ways that don't meet the licence requirements.

Apple has chosen to tie the use of MacOS only to Apple branded hardware: that's
it's choice, and I for one would hate to see the rights of copyright holders
diminished in this respect. GPL depends on copyright!

I never understood during Apple v. Psystar why some people thought that they had
some sort of human right to run other people's software on whatever hardware
they liked. It's Apple's software, not ours, because they were able to take
their development of free software down the proprietary route.

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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

cross-market tying is still illegal - Authored by: mcinsand on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 04:07 PM EDT
- cross-market tying is still illegal - Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 05:01 PM EDT
- How, exactly, is Apple doing "tying"? - Authored by: Tkilgore on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT
  - How, exactly, is Apple doing "tying"? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 05:39 PM EDT
Nothing to do with copyright - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 07:08 PM EDT
- Nothing to do with copyright - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 12:33 AM EDT
- Nothing to do with copyright - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 02:38 PM EDT
Because your autodealer cannot tell you what to do with your car - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 07:51 AM EDT

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