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On 01/20/2012 02:17 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Fred A. Miller <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fmiller@lightlink.com"><fmiller@lightlink.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360?tag=nl.e589">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360?tag=nl.e589</a>
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<pre wrap="">Wow. Let me see if I understand this. Apple provides a free tool,
designed exclusively for creating content for their iBooks store, and
people are complaining that this free software, designed exclusively
for this purpose has restrictions that won't let you use it for any
other purpose?
Sorry, guys, but I find <span class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>this<span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span> attitude arrogant, not Apple's. Why
should they provide you a free tool, designed exclusively for one
purpose, so you can repurpose it to make money without them? eh?
Nobody is making you use their tool. Use somebody else's tool. You can
guarantee that now that Apple has put the idea out there, somebody
will will now attempt to copy that idea and come up with something
vastly less useful and easy, but which will accomplish the same thing.
Live it up folks, but please, don't complain. It makes you look
petty--but in this day and age, it seems it is all the fashion to
complain, so maybe nobody notices any more. sigh.</pre>
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I just pass on what's "notable" in the 'puter "news".....I didn't
write it. <span class="moz-smiley-s11"><span> 8-) </span></span><br>
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Fred <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
"Socialism is so bad a system that not even the Germans could
make it work".
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