Another year without being institutionalized. Yay me.
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 In response to the whiny fucknuts who pissed an moaned over Apple serving up a side of Safari along with the latest iTunes update on Windows (see my rant here), Apple updated their Software Update client for Windows to distinguish between “new” and “updated” software. So, there you go, Apple bows to the community and everybody wins. Apparently, not if your Asa Dotzler. If you’re Asa, then Apple doing the very gods damned thing that you asked for is not good enough. Apparently Apple needs to also not check the box to install Safari by default. Again, the take home message here is that Windows users are so fucking confused by a checkbox that they can’t be trusted with the horrible responsibility of installing a browser. What’s next Asa, do I need a note from my mommy to assure that I weally weally wanted to install Safari. You know, for a bunch of people who expound on the virtues of “choice,” freetards sure do seem to have an issue with users making the choice to use something that isn’t theirs. Here’s a suggestion for you Asa. When a someone with a vested interest This tickles me. The maroons at Linux.com felt compelled to write an in-depth article about how the iPhone developer program is not compatible with “Free Software.” Ignoring the biggest flaw in their article, which is assuming that the NDA restrictions currently being imposed on the developers in the beta program will also apply to developers once the program is out of beta, is anyone actually surprised that the iPhone Developer program doesn’t play well with the GPL? And more importantly, does anyone other than freetards give a rat’s ass. You want to develop “free” software for a phone, go develop for OpenMoko. I’m sure the neck-beards will sing your praises. Update to yesterday’s big Mac story. So, apparently the Psystards (come on, they handed me that one) have vowed to fight Apple in court for their “right” to sell generic PC’s with OS X installed. Amazingly, the blogokleinbottle response has actually been somewhat intelligent, but that’s a rant for another day. What I want to focus on here is a few reasons why Psystar winning a judgement against the clause in the OS X license agreement barring the installation of the OS on non-Apple hardware is a very bad thing. Should Apple’s restrictions on hardware installation be struck down, I guarantee there would be immediate challenges to the GPL; especially GPLv3, with it’s anti hardware DRM provisions. Currently Apple doesn’t force any sort of activation scheme ala Windows. Instead they trust their users to abide by the terms that they agreed to in the license agreement. In fact, Apple pretty much turns a blind eye to all manner of personal violations of the agreement as long as they don’t affect the bottom line. Once a third party starts making money off of selling OS X “compatible” boxes, I expect product activation to appear in 10.6 as the latest. It gets Continue reading Additional Thoughts on the OpenMac Announcement. …The chuckle-heads at Psystar, whose website seems to be down, so here’s a link to the Ars story. It seems these frigtards are selling a Leopard compatible Mac “clone” for four hundred clams. Here’s a quick dramatization of the strategy meeting in Psytar central that resulted in this brave experiment in getting your asses sued off by el jeffe Jobs: GUY 1: gurgle gurgle gurgle inhale….cough, cough. Hey man, you know what would be really cool? If we slap some commodity PC parts together with an EFI emulator and sell it to run Mac OS X on. GUY 2: Dude, don’t bogart the bong man. Yeah, that would rock, and we could sell it for, like four hundred bucks. GUY 1: Oh yeah man. The proponents of free software will buy these like hotcakes. We’ll be striking a blow for freedom. I don’t know who to pity more. These morons, or any fool who actually orders one of these things. peace out. |
 
 
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