XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 8/04/2025 4:07 pm, Marion wrote:   
   > On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 02:37:12 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :   
   >   
   >>> There is free open source software which does not cost money but when   
   >>> distributed by the Apple App Store, it's locked to a specific Apple ID.   
   >>>   
   >>> No other operating system vendor does that for software that is free.   
   >>> Only Apple.   
   >>   
   >> AGAIN, that is not FREE Software.   
   >>   
   >> Stop calling it Free. It ain't. This is serious, Arlen. Study it up. You   
   >> claim to be clever. Be it.   
   >>   
   >>> Call it whatever you want to call it, but that's what Apple does to it.   
   >>   
   >> I don't care who does it.   
   >   
   > The fact that only Apple adds locks (to an Apple ID) on software that no   
   > other operating system locks is the technical point that matters here.   
   >   
   > That lock goes on *all* software from Apple. Every single app. Every type.   
   > No matter what type of app it is. It gets that unique lock only Apple does.   
   >   
   > That's what's different. The lock. It's unique. Only Apple does that.   
   >   
   > That lock prevents re-use. And that lock allows Apple to track you.   
   > And that's what's bad.   
   >   
   Am I mis-reading what is being posted here??   
      
   Both Marion *AND* Carlos E.R. seem to be suggesting that *only* Apple   
   locks a user into their/Apples system .... Other OSs/systems are not   
   locking their users into THEIR OSs/Systems.   
      
   Or am I mis-understanding what is being posted??   
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   Daniel70   
      
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