[Ti] Mac free software

[Loren Schooley]

Looks like you need to spend more money on software and less on alcohol.

> From: Eric Forat <forat at uol.com.br>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:13:54 -0300
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [Ti] Mac free  software
> 
>   Talk about how Apple should provide all it's software for free
> forever is, IMHO, excessive.
> Above all, Apple's record shows that it has recently decided to maximize
> revenue streams from it's software, (as it is it's "capitalist" right)
> building on the principle of bundling it's OS for free with each new
> computer, and some of it's proprietary software too. This was, and is,
> necessary because Apple has a monopoly on the software running it's
> machines out of the box. Apple doesn't sell it's computers without it's
> latest OS preinstalled, as PC OEM were forced to do for people who
> wanted to have only Linux installed, and demanded a refund of the value
> of a Windows licence.
>   Besides this necessity, created by it's monopoly, it should be
> obvious Apple has the right to charge what it wants, or is able to, for
> it's proprietary software and/or services. The fact that all of us old
> Macmaniacs have been used to getting some free software or updates does
> NOT mean we have now an acquired right to free software forever. "There
> is no such thing as a free lunch" is still operative. =-O
>   But yes, I for example find passing strange that AppleWorks is
> bundled in the iBooks and iMacs and eMacs but not in the PBs or desktop
> line. Marketing decisions, I guess, and we all know Apple's marketing
> department is almost as bad as their Design is great, and Quality
> Control once was. But Marketing it is, and not a "Betrayal of All That
> Is Holy" in the "Church of Our Macsaviour"
> 
> eric
> 
> ps: it's not that I want the last word, but maybe this issue is dead by now,
> and should be only for private discussions?
> 
> 
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