If someone else tries to make profit off of Apples product without license from Apple, then Apple is absolutely within their rights to prevent it.
It's perfectly legitimate to resell products at a profit without permission or "license" from the manufacturer. That's exactly what any retail store does to make money (in the case where they buy from a distributor and aren't the original manufacturer).
That's easy. Just do it outside!
It's on Microsoft's FTP servers now:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS/Hover.EXE
(Usual disclaimers about running random binaries go here...)
The only way to solve this (partially) with existing hardware would be to block access to hardware devices from applications running as non-root users, which is fundamentally contrary to the desire to get device drivers out of the kernel for stability.
Note that the root user account and the special priviledges usually given to it have nothing to do with kernel mode. Code running as root may be able to get code to run in kernel mode, such as by loading a kernel module (and in theory this priviledge could be given to other accounts as well), but is still running in regular user mode.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa948864.aspx
Look for "Microsoft Virtual CD Control Tool". They have had that on their site for years...
As I've said here before, no, you don't need Microsoft Windows to develop (near-) native applications for Windows Mobile. You can do so with Mono on Linux (or FreeBSD, or Mac OS X...) by copying the
As for having to buy a Mac - do you think it's possible to develop for windows mobile without having a windows-based PC?
Yes, it is; you can develop for WM with Mono on Linux. All you need to do is copy the
Anyone else find it amusing that Microsoft names their "cloud-based OS" on what the sky looks like when it's, well, cloudless?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
