[ale] Mac's version of BSD

[Jim Kinney]

I was not the author of that quote but I use it often.
Apple has fully become the legion of control and dominance the claimed to
rebel against in that classic ad from the 80's.
"Be different.  Be just like us."
Thankfully, the splintering and inherent openness of the Linux
infrastructure greatly inhibits the development of the control and dominate
process fully adopted by Apple (and Oracle).
On May 17, 2012 8:44 AM, "Tom Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2012, Drifter wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
> > The only remaining issue is how to drive a silver plated stake through
> its
> > heart.  The damn thing won't go away.  Put an SD card in a reader plugged
> > into her Mac and the only option available is download the images into
> > iPhoto. ARGhhhhhh!!!!!!
>
> At this point, it might bear repeating the observation made some time ago
> with respect to (I think) the Android thread. Something to the effect that
> if you can not remove a program, you really don't own the system. Memory
> says Jim K. quoted that, so he might want to clean up my misquote.
>
>  > >
> Sean, >
> > who has issues with Apple's attitude of "The Apple Way or the highway."
> >
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <<snip>>
> +1 with the whole issues with Apple's attitude thing...
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