[lbo-talk] MacVeblen

[ravi]

On May 1, 2009, at 11:12 AM, ravi wrote:
> On May 1, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>> PS. By "monopoly with a hefty price tag" I understand that Mac does  
>> not allow aftermarket software or hardware - you have to buy it  
>> form Mac at a price that is far greater than the aftermarket  
>> products.
>
> Woj, with all respect, I think you need to sit this one out. ;-) Any  
> OS vendor who does not permit 3rd party software to run on their  
> system is doomed.

In your defence, perhaps you meant "aftermarket OS", but that's not  
true either. A Mac can run both Windows and GNU/Linux. Both natively  
on the processor or in a virtual machine. For a while they were  
boasting sarcastically that the Mac was the fastest Windows platform.

It is true that Apple does not permit Mac OS X, their OS, to run on  
non-Apple hardware (generally speaking).

	--ravi