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To: tacticalogic
Oh, I misunderstood. You were talking about the Apple model, not Linux.

MS was never a hardware developer, so why would they? In the case of Apple, until recently they always had ties to hardware and software.

MS is increasingly trying to force the hardware manufacturers and PC assemblers to enforce their licensing. To the point of trying to hold the U.S. manufacturers responsible for their ChiCom hardware suppliers. They recently had defectors on that attempt.

Since we are on the subject. There is a reason that hardware, operating systems and applications were developed separately. The complexity and the skills were dispersed. Openness allowed all this to happen.

24 posted on 09/27/2011 9:56:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil

If you were in charge of license enforcement, how would you do it?


26 posted on 09/27/2011 10:29:24 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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