Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (a new Mac is a "giant hardware dongle")

Re:Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (a new... by sspencer on Monday January 28, 2008 @08:20PM (#105896)

I guess if you want to, you can think of it that way. I had OpenBSD on my old PowerBook for a while; I never really felt constrained by the platform. It's only "just a dongle" if you let it be just a dongle.

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Re:Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (a new... by binarykeats on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @07:31AM (#106106)

The point isn't that you can't run other OSes on Mac hardware. The point is you can run OS X only on Mac hardware.

This argument has been going on forever, of course. But that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. It would be nice if you could run OS X on any old cheap hardware you chose, rather than the overpriced machines made by one company. That's the normal state of affairs for virtually every other OS people care about.

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