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To: Swordmaker

Yes. I agree with you. That is why I do not see the conflict between the two that most others see to.

I like both, and make a lot of money off of both companies, and also Linux (but not a specific company on that).

So it’s all good to me.

And on your previous comment, I do know about not “buying” a MAC OS. There are ways to obtain it, illegally. I went to a “hackfest” once, and watched some people do it, from beginning to end, and I was impressed by their skills. Unfortunately they showed how to “pull out” the MAC OS. They kept saying “...it was illegal to do this, but we’re doing it just for demonstration purposes.”


46 posted on 10/20/2016 3:44:48 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
And on your previous comment, I do know about not “buying” a MAC OS. There are ways to obtain it, illegally. I went to a “hackfest” once, and watched some people do it, from beginning to end, and I was impressed by their skills. Unfortunately they showed how to “pull out” the MAC OS. They kept saying “...it was illegal to do this, but we’re doing it just for demonstration purposes.”

Way back, when I was running a Virtual Mac on my Amiga 3000 (did it also on my Amiga 500) I was using a Apple Mac ROM image. I did it the right way. I bought a dead Mac for $50 at a garage sale, so I legally owned the ROMs. . . and imaged those ROMs so I could legally use the image on my Amiga. Others downloaded their ROM copies, which was against copyright law, and just went ahead and used them. I had fun at the time arguing with Mac users that the Mac did indeed have "hidden" files on the boot disks. They couldn't see them, but I could see them from the Amiga OS. Funny. They would swear up and down there were no hidden files! You should have seen their faces when I showed them the pieces of the font files inside the suit cases. LOL! They thought they were monolithic files. I learned a lot about repairing damaged fonts from being able to see what was in those suit cases.

Of course, Apple still has hidden files, but you can still see them on a Mac if you know how.

52 posted on 10/20/2016 4:33:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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