I just want my devices to be mine again... to be able to tinker with them without making myself a target for a lawsuit...
:-/ On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > You are then saying that Apple has violated some contract or agreement, or at > least a commonly understood "fair practices" common law with the vendors. > Well and good. There's grounds for a lawsuit then. > > But character assassinations of people we do not at all know personally, > behind the impenetrable shield of the Internet, seems to me a bit cowardly. I > am sensitive to these kinds of attack, because I have been the victim of them > for years in the past and only found out later what was going on. A person I > had pissed off by not giving them what they thought they were "owed" (admin > rights to "his" computer) had been badmouthing me with everyone everywhere he > went at work. I had such a bad reputation for being mean spirited, that > people who had never met me before were actually afraid of me. I couldn't > understand why when I went waaay out of my way to be kind considerate and > polite to people that they still treated me like I was their enemy. It really > got me down for a long time until someone had the courage to tell me that > this person had been talking badly about me for years. > > When I finally confronted him about it, the whole thing revolved around the > fact that I had gotten management to tell him to stop disabling SSH and > Remote Management on the Mac that was really owned by the company, not him. > That was it. Years of character assassination because of a personal hair up > his arse. > > So when people talk about what a jerk Steve Jobs is, they may be right, but > only by accident, because they DO NOT KNOW HIM. > > Bob > > > On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:57 AM, David C. wrote: > >> Bob said: >>>> If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract. >>>> If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product. >> >> What you are overlooking is that vendors like Amazon have already >> invested who knows how much, to build and provide first class >> applications for Apple products and their customers. >> >> ...and more than just a few Apple customers already have an investment >> in content from vendors such as Amazon that could largely become >> useless, without buying a new device. >> >> The pure audacity of Mr. Jobs or Apple in general, to continually try >> and impose their will upon developers, vendors and ultimately the end >> user is beyond anything we have ever seen previously in the computer >> industry. Microsoft at their worst, hasn't even come close. >> >> Unfortunately, Apple is headed by little more than an egotistical >> madman who wants control of everything and everyone around him. >> >> And that's just my 2¢ also. >> >> The "People" advocate. ;-) >> >> Best regards, >> David C. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
