BS. Nowadays there's no need to subsidize a product (software/hardware). Companies only do it to draw attention and potential gain.
On Saturday, September 8, 2012, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > It's unclear to me why the fact that I buy a license to use software >> versus >> owning the actual software itself has any effect on what I choose to do >> with it. Either way, I pay money to Apple to be able to use it. That's a >> different issue than what the EULA says regarding not using it on >> non-Apple >> hardware of course but interesting nevertheless. >> > > I would venture to guess that Apple's justification for not allowing > purchasers of OS X to run it on hardware of their own choice is that the > price of the Apple-branded computer effectively subsidizes part of the cost > of the OS. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: > http://twitter.com/**FourthWorldSys<http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys> > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
