Sunday, April 03, 2005
Missing iDVD conclusion - macosx1038
So it seems that right in 2005, Apple, a company known for all its technological innovations and for being ahead on all new trends in Internet and what not, asks you for The proof of Purchase of your Apple computer by fax. No, you can not simply scan it and send it by e-mail, or take a screenshot, or allow Apple technicians hack your computer to figure it out. The proof of purchase must be sent by fax. And then, what? Wait for 2 or 3 weeks, I guess, and by that time my camera will be filled up and so will be my hard drive with video footage that should have been DVDed and put out of the way.
But who cares? After all I am just another idiot that thought that by paying for software that would get him technical support in case it was needed.
Is Microsoft behind all these new policies? I am afraid so, because I have worked with macs for 15 years now and I have never seen anything of the kind.
And still they have the nerve to come up with comments like:
Microsoft operating system chief Jim Allchin said, "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called open source software a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
Even founder Bill Gates weighed in with his own rhetoric saying that open source was created with the belief that the business of software should not even exist.
Yeah, right. But the truth is that while Microsoft directed Apple charges money for software that doesn't work (not to mention wxp), Linux gives it away for free and you can always get support from down-to-earth docs and helful forums and maybe contribute to create better useful software. That is very american, in my opinion. At least the America I like.
But who cares? After all I am just another idiot that thought that by paying for software that would get him technical support in case it was needed.
Is Microsoft behind all these new policies? I am afraid so, because I have worked with macs for 15 years now and I have never seen anything of the kind.
And still they have the nerve to come up with comments like:
Microsoft operating system chief Jim Allchin said, "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called open source software a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
Even founder Bill Gates weighed in with his own rhetoric saying that open source was created with the belief that the business of software should not even exist.
Yeah, right. But the truth is that while Microsoft directed Apple charges money for software that doesn't work (not to mention wxp), Linux gives it away for free and you can always get support from down-to-earth docs and helful forums and maybe contribute to create better useful software. That is very american, in my opinion. At least the America I like.
