Seriously? Do you have a citation or link or something for that? (I've never heard of this before. I'm not terribly surprised, but would like to read about it)
If true, my already pretty bad view of Apple just got worse.
Because, clearly, a shotgun can't cause much havoc.
I mean if a muslim goes out a does something, and every other muslim leader does not immediately condemn the behavior, then all the christians go and condemn all the muslims. So is turnabout fair play?
Yes. Christians should condemn this. And they have.
or simply exercising their own?
I don't see how "hacking" = "free speech."
Hacker gets into Chase Bank. Publishes credit card information. Is publishing that information "free speech," too? Seems like we shouldn't change our stance against something just because it possibly has monetary consequences.
This. Other people's rights to what? Rights to not be offended? You have that right if you're on your own private property, because you can tell someone to get off it and they have to (trespassing, etc.). But in a public space? I don't think you have a right to "not" hear something by some other free individual.
Microsoft threatened vendors when they wanted to put other browsers on their OEM builds and that's what made it illegal.
Do you have a citation for this? I've never heard this particular statement before. Furthermore, if the problem was that they threatened vendors, shouldn't that have been what the lawsuit was about, and not about bundling the browser?
It seems silly to me that the argument went like: "You are threatening vendors and forcing them to not put other browsers on OEM builds. Therefore, we require that you remove your own browser, even though that's not the problem, that's not what was illegal, and there's nothing wrong with you having it there."
Fixing problems caused by regulation (government-granted monopolies) with more regulation. Something seems wrong with that.
Maybe coming up with a solution such that the whole government-granted monopoly thing is no longer "necessary" would be better?
Games aren't the only things though, I'd also need Cakewalk Sonar (and affiliated plugins), or something very much like it, Native Instruments Kontakt and EastWest Play.
And, for me, Sibelius... music notation. There is not a good replacement for it. Yes, there is "music notation" software for Linux. I said "good" replacement
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.