I think that it does, because most people in history bought a PC from an OEM, and the rest of us could get an OEM copy if we wanted to. Having been a Mac user up into the 040 days, and then slightly again after that, I did always appreciate the fact that Apple wouldn't even in theory hassle you about making your own copies of the System disks. But: Apple wasn't giving you anything that it didn't make sense for them to give you, and they for most of history they've charged a substantial price premium and provided inferior performance. Even today, when they actually have impressive hardware for a time longer than the moment the G5 had in the sun, they still only excel up into the mid-range, but I have to admit they're killing it there.

I paid $100 for the last version of Windows I bought (the absolutely peak Windows 7 Pro x64, for what it's worth) and I got a legit system builder's license as I was building a potato of Theseus which has evolved into the big black cube-shaped 5900X I'm using now. I could run that Windows 7 in a VM today if I want to, and I occasionally do when I need to run some kind of programmer or something — just attach a hub to the VM to solve all the awkwardness. But I haven't run either Windows or MacOS except under protest since I discovered AmigaOS and Unix at nearly the same time, in 1991.

It seems to me that there is a general lack of sanity in the world. This is only one of the most personally irritating personifications.

That's fair in general, but that still doesn't mean that you should chase every CVE immediately... I know, see above

Both things

No doubt they will get high quality products and services as a result. Oracle provides nothing other.

My favorite is the times it's told people to make a right angle turn off the side of a bridge. That's not an instruction very likely to cause harm because there's not an exit there for some idiot to take, but it's especially hilarious because there's no excuse for that.

PS2s didn't come with HDDs so devs couldn't rationally require one.

Most games after that install

Are you trying to sound like geekmux or did you forget not to?

rsilvergun has a handy upvote cadre here who upvote every comment he makes.
And then he vanishes when simple math, facts, or logic refutes one of his wild-hair assertions.

It's hard to get that evidence, which was the point of creating a coin to profit from the presidency.

If I accept a cookie from a customer I can be cashiered, but if the president sets up an entire automated bribery SYSTEM you will make excuses for him

Die mad, cucks

Yup, it comes from not understanding how funding and military procurement works. If you go 1$ over your allotment it causes a lot of headaches....

From TFS:

Can't manage it yourself? Pay a company for support, or "just use Debian or Yocto as their security practices are amazing."

They suck a huge amount of money out of the court system and then We The People who paid for that don't even get to find out what the outcome was? The courts sure as fuck don't work for us.

No, it isn't. We know that's not the explanation because historically, Apple did NOT give you tools and free software other companies charged for. That was not true until Mac OS X, when they finally gave away a development environment. Prior to that you had to buy a compiler from a third party, as Apple didn't even offer one.

Apple did give you hypercard for a while with classic MacOS versions, but they failed to execute on that and it eventually died. It might have been popular, but all the extensions you needed to make it do anything interesting were commercial (like you couldn't even send serial characters) so it was inferior to BASIC which you got with DOS, Windows, Amiga, Atari... well, pretty much from everyone but Apple.

Which Apple are you thinking of?