Apple could add such an anti-feature, but other people could easily take it straight back out again. If Apple had to give out source code for its core OS, as they would if they used Linux, then Apple would effectively lose the ability to add user-constraining features, such as DRM, to that OS. This in turn means that whatever Apple tried to do with Linux, other parties could un-do. This condition applies to Apple because Apple did not write Linux, and those who did write Linux have placed this condition on permission to re-distribute it. This is a condition of Apple being allowed to re-distribute Linux to other people. Linux is not owned by (written by) Apple and it is GPL so whatever Apple did with it, they have to give the source code to whomever asks for it. Why would they lose control? It’s open source so they can do whatever they want with it. With, of course, dubious results of “kids will get used to them” ( expand the detailed past percentages – that 0.97% is only after massive growth over the past 5 years) Giving very “fluffy” computer education anyway, and totally disconnected from local ecosystem. *not only hellishly expensive for the place… it was also a dumping ground for Mac Classic and LC475. (“but Macs come with polish qwerty typist’s kb layout!” most likely not being enough by itself – polish qwerty programmer’s layout, physically identical to US layout, wasn’t a problem before or after …besides, you can find polish qwerty typist’s keyboards for PCs, they were just always mostly ignored plus a coordinated country-wide school deployment could easily order the thousands of units needed even directly from manufacturers) Some backstage practices / nice sums of money informally changing hands virtually had to be the case, considering the mark-up* of the machines in the face of local economic realities at the time (plus the scale – enough even for both high schools in my irrelevant provincial city those ~25 machines in total, between the two, most likely being a strong majority – if not all – of Macintoshes in a 20k city BTW), and how such things were done. It is becoming more and more apparent recently that at least some IP rules, which as an overall group are the basis of Apple litigation throughout the world, got in place also via US gov and the agreements they push…Īpart from that – killing the clone market was possibly in a similar league? Or: something doesn’t ring quite right with the purchase of a company which provided multi-touch products “particularly helpful for people suffering from RSI and other medical conditions” ( ) and promptly withdrawing them from the market.įurthermore, it’s worth noting how there was probably something fishy with “push Apple into schools, kids will get used to them, …” during large part of the 90s at my place (so possibly also at other similar ones, at the least). One thing Apple has yet to do(?): make the U.S government use their trade agreement to kill international competition
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