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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by bhnmmhmd on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:53AM (#17415462)
From Game Theory perspective, "not using Linux" is actually the game's equilibrium. Because if you have to choose between a proprietary OS (Windows, macOS) and an FOSS (GNU/Linux, BSD, ...), you'd have to choose the former in order to increase your own utility. If people said they're gonna start using Linux from now on, that wouldn't work, since at least some are willing to "unilaterally deviate" from that decision and use Windows/macOS to gain a boost against others.

If you want people to start using FOSS, you'd have to offer them something they can't have on non-FOSS alternatives.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by 794CD01 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:53AM (#17416830)
The offer is there. It's freedom, and most people don't want it.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by analognoise on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:38AM (#17417773)
A 'free' computer that doesn't actually run any of the tools you need is worthless.

Makes a good doorstop, I guess.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by 794CD01 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:39PM (#17418927)
Indeed. You are free to modify it to run those tools, or create alternate tools that do run (maybe not so much after Oracle v Google). But ain't nobody got time for that.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by analognoise on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:11PM (#17419183)
This is such a bullshit argument.

I don't want to spend my time making a toaster - I just want toast.

Also this is why FOSS software continually reinvents the wheel, badly. Want some BS program? There are a million of them. Want an actual tool that requires deep talent and domain knowledge? Outside of compilers, if it's FOSS, it is almost certainly garbage.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by 794CD01 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:15PM (#17419214)
I think you are imagining the argument you want to see. Your comment is not responsive to what I actually wrote.
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