Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-09-01 Thread Peter
On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:00 PM, paul beard wrote: Rumors of Apple's imminent demise have been around for 15 years: right now their market cap is 150 Billion Dollars (that's billion with a B). Dell's is 44Bn. HP's is just under 6Bn. What do you think you know that the market doesn't? In the

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-31 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/08, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: There is a deep injustice when an Intel Mac buyer can install Winblowz yet we are not allowed to install an Apple OS on PC equipment. Ah, go ahead and do it. Everyone's doing it. Nobody's

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-31 Thread Ralph
Howdy, On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:55 -0400, Dan wrote: I don't want remarkably bad things like the treacherous firmware in the Apple Intel Macs Explain please? What's wrong with EFI? The problem with EFI is that it give some remote party, which is Apple in this case, the ability to

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-30 Thread Ralph
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 19:24 +0100, Simon Royal wrote: If I wanted to spent half my time updating drivers and resolving conflicts I would buy a PC. Where did this silly idea that the Mac is not a PC come from? You are not the first person I have seen make this mistake. It is like saying. I

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 28, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:26 AM -0700 8/28/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: WOW. Pystar must have hired SCO's legal team. That's 'epic fail' territory. I donno. I think it has a shot. *Someone* *somewhere* needs to challenge the crap companies load in these EULAs...

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Ted Treen
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 28, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:26 AM -0700 8/28/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: WOW. Pystar must have hired SCO's legal team. That's 'epic fail' territory. I donno. I think it has a shot. *Someone* *somewhere* needs to challenge the crap

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 28, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:26 AM -0700 8/28/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: WOW. Pystar must have hired SCO's legal team. That's 'epic fail' territory. I donno. I think it has a shot. *Someone*

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 29, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Dan wrote: Now we just need a ruling that says software is a product just like hardware, *in this context*. And we need magical flying unicorn ponies too. No way in hell will this case produce such a ruling unless the judge goes unfathomably beyond his/her

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 29, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Dan wrote: Now we just need a ruling that says software is a product just like hardware, *in this context*. And we need magical flying unicorn ponies too. No way in hell will this case

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:51 PM, paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 29, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Technophobic_Tom
Bruce Johnson wrote: Apple is doing JUST FINE the way they are; just because they're not doing what YOU want does not mean they're failing. Ted Treen wrote: All these people who know where Apple's going wrong...I wonder how many of them are CEO's of successful IT companies. BINGO !!!

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Johnson wrote: Apple is doing JUST FINE the way they are; just because they're not doing what YOU want does not mean they're failing. Ted Treen wrote: All these people who know where Apple's going wrong...I wonder how many of

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: As if being a CEO or CFO was the measure of a man or his right to bear and express an opinion. Who is telling you you can't have an opinion? No one. I wonder how the founding fathers of the USA felt about that. Care to

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Peter
On Aug 29, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: As if being a CEO or CFO was the measure of a man or his right to bear and express an opinion. Who is telling you you can't have an opinion? No one. I wonder how the

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Among the score of distros there are said to be some far easier to install and configure. Stability has always been a main feature of Linux. Shrinkwrapped Linux is on shelves all over the country and may even

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Dan
At 10:28 AM -0700 8/29/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: Now we just need a ruling that says software is a product just like hardware, *in this context*. And we need magical flying unicorn ponies too. Whoa there. Leave the Unicorns ALONE. They be immune to thy magiks. - Dan. -- -

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Technophobic_Tom
Starting to feel like we're feeding a troll here . . Trolls are insulting people who insist there view is right. They call people names and rant without reasoning. From Wikipedia: An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Apple is a company founded by a couple of phone hackers. the most prominent one has been noted for taking risks and espousing heretical thinking for all of his days. And many of us including myself

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Technophobic_Tom
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Tom wrote: Wallace wrote: Trolls are insulting people who insist there view is right. They call people names and rant without reasoning. From Wikipedia: An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Tom wrote: Wallace wrote: Trolls are insulting people who insist there view is right. They call people names and rant without reasoning. From Wikipedia: An Internet troll, or simply troll

Re: Anti Trust Hackin' back . Psystar answers and stands firm.

2008-08-28 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Simon Royal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. While tieing Apple OS to Apple hardware can seem a pain, it does mean they oversea all hardware combinations. If they start shipping OSX for PC then it will end like Windows and require third party drivers that