It would absolutely be legal in Europe. Stores in Europe are free to chose what they want to sell and not, they are not required to carry everyone that wants to. If Apple decides that they don't want to carry competing streaming applications then they are fully within their right to do so, just like Debian is in their right to refuse to ship any application in their archive for whatever reason they want. Are you suggesting that Debian could not legally refuse to ship the non-free Spotify client in Europe?

Nothing requires Apple to carry everything in their store. They can deny any app for whatever reason they want.

There's several to choose from. ARM, POWER, SPARC, just to mention a few.

Would you feel better if the CPU/GPU came with the firmware preloaded? I agree that it's not ideal but the code is not loaded into the kernel, it's loaded into the hardware by the kernel.

Of course, but I wasn't questioning that it was worth that amount of money. I asked why.

$200,000 sounds insane for an old computer. OK it's a fairly rare computer that has some historical value, but even a fraction of that amount would be quite high.

Microsoft allows you to downgrade all copies of Windows 8.1 Pro to either Windows Vista Business or Windows 7 Professional. That is provided by Microsoft, it's not up to the OEM.

It's a suboptimal choice of words. You're still allowed even if you don't want it.

Depends on how you look at. XFS is continuously developed and improved, they just don't stick a version number after it like the ext developers.

If the file system actually was great I'm sure someone else would pick it up, but I don't know if it was that great.

Or it could work just fine. RAID 0 is not dangerous, you may just as well loose your data even if you only use a single drive. Hard drives and SSDs don't go bad that often that it's a problem.

According to the article he did that in a simulated environment, not the actual plane.

Which is nice but doesn't really do anything for you if you're not using PostgreSQL, for example those using SQL Server.

It's not so much that it's hard to learn. It's not actually that hard. When building an operating system dealing with all the small details of the hardware is much more harder than learning assembly. The reason why we stopped building operating systems completely in assembly was not that it was hard to learn but it was because we wanted to port them to different architectures.