Except that Apple doesn't exercise any proprietary control, except if you want to sell in the App store.
If you just want to hack on your hardware, Apple doesn't care. You might void your warranty, but that's it.
Apple keeps the consumers protected, and doesn't stop the hackers.
This "very real threat" is literally an imaginary bogeyman that only "Free[1]" Software Hippies care about.
[1] So long as you use our license and only our license and never express an opinion contrary to the Chairman Richard Mao Stallman.
PS -- I've never met a real geek who thought Apple was exercising proprietary control outside of their realm. All of the people who complain about Apple like this-- that I know personally-- are not geeks who got into linux (and the "free" ideology) because it was cool, not because they're really hackers with engineering skills. But that's just my personal experience. Of course, they think they are the "real geeks" and that people who use macs use them because "they come with training wheels" and stuff like that.
>I've never met a real geek who thought Apple was exercising proprietary control outside of their realm. All of the people who complain about Apple like this-- that I know personally-- are not geeks who got into linux (and the "free" ideology) because it was cool, not because they're really hackers with engineering skills.
Is this a joke?
The real hackers are...apple fans, and the people who got into linux because they thought it was cool are all a bunch of posers?
If you just want to hack on your hardware, Apple doesn't care. You might void your warranty, but that's it.
Apple keeps the consumers protected, and doesn't stop the hackers.
This "very real threat" is literally an imaginary bogeyman that only "Free[1]" Software Hippies care about.
[1] So long as you use our license and only our license and never express an opinion contrary to the Chairman Richard Mao Stallman.
PS -- I've never met a real geek who thought Apple was exercising proprietary control outside of their realm. All of the people who complain about Apple like this-- that I know personally-- are not geeks who got into linux (and the "free" ideology) because it was cool, not because they're really hackers with engineering skills. But that's just my personal experience. Of course, they think they are the "real geeks" and that people who use macs use them because "they come with training wheels" and stuff like that.