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Originally Posted by holograph
gideon, do you have a problem with copyright monopoly or medium monopoly? which one is more problematic in your view?
i personally demand full blown win7 on ipad, they have no fricking right to have medium monopoly on OS running on their product. those bastards lol
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monopolies are not bad it when you attempt to use them create or extend that monopoly power to another market.
you have a right to the copyright monopoly, it when you abuse it to try and create a secondary monopoly (ie medium) that i have a problem with
your example is only part way there, apple shouldn't be forced to install windows on ipad
however if modified a micro kernal version of linux (or microsoft did with windows) and they flashed the eprom of an ipad with that new os. trying to stop that from happening would be a problem in my mind.
apple got paid for the hardware, they got paid for the software, if i want to "break" my ipad as long as i am willing to live with the consequences ( ie no support) i dam well should have the right.