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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 05:01 PM EDT |
It's generally a good idea to sync up our
personal ideas with reality, once it's very
clear where real is.
And it was found that this was not illegal
tying, because it wasn't aftermarket. You
buy the product or you don't. It's not like
a printer vendor requiring that from then on
you can only buy ink from them.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Tkilgore on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT |
You can buy a copy of Apple's operating system.
You can buy a whitebox computer.
The only problem that someone has who would use the two together is, Apple's
operating system will not run on that whitebox computer unless one has done a
bit of jiggery-poker with the software which seems not to be allowed by law.
The question of whether the law by which the jiggery-poker is not allowed is a
good law or not, is a very interesting question, but that question is not
exactly relevant here. The question of whether or not one likes Apple for using
that law to block people is also a separate issue.
Since a car analogy has already been brought in, one might ask whether some
Fords could be made to run on kerosene. But even if some Fords could be made to
run on kerosene after a bit of tweaking, does anyone accuse Ford of
"tying" its products to gasoline?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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