XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-04-08 04:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-04-08 11:19, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> 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??   
   >   
   > No, I am saying nothing about the lock. I don't care, I don't have any   
   > Apple.   
   >   
   > What I say is that if there is a lock, the Apple software may be gratis,   
   > but it is not Free (as in Freedom). Free means I am free to take the   
   > source code, remove the lock, recompile, and sell it myself. With   
   > variants in the details by the licensing.   
   >   
      
   Carlos, you personally don't get to decide for the world what the word   
   "free" means.   
      
   Sorry to burst your bubble on this.   
      
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