How about just notifying us of seperate components that have nothing to do with itunes being installed? I realize to you Apple doing this is A-ok double plus whatever you say, but some of us don't like it apple or MS.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:56 AM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Jeff Wright wrote: > >> Except that I have no need for this and Apple thinks it below them to >> even deign to ask the lowly user if they don't want to install >> Bonjour. >> > > You are not installing Bonjour. You are installing iTunes. To do that you > had to download iTunes and run the installer. In the process you read and > assented to lots of conditions. Nobody is forcing you to use iTunes. There > are lots of alternatives. > > By your rules, every application would have to display a list of every > component to let you decide one by one which ones you want. That would be > silly and would make writing the software very expensive because it would > have to work under so many different configurations. There is nothing wrong > with iTunes being of a single piece, take it or leave it. > > This is very different than the operating system vendor pushing down > updates that modify third-party software. Worse yet, the modifications > bypass security features of that third-party software that are a major > competitive feature of that software. What I think makes it criminal is that > M$ is a convicted monopolist and Mozilla is a direct competitor in this > market. M$'s prior conviction was largely due to their previous assault on > Mozilla. Now they want to "knife the baby" a second time! > > Let me put it another way. What makes this wrong is the same reasoning that > bans convicted child molesters from areas around schools and playgrounds. > They can't be trusted. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
