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probably because apple is not microsoft. apple is "the little guy" and
apple doesn't force hardware vendors to sign agreements penalizing them if
they include another OS - since they are also the hardware vendor.
>> I guess Apple doesn't care about the person who already has OS X and
>> decides to buy new hardware.
>
> If the license is anything like a lot of commercial software, it won't
> matter (i.e. is the license transferrable?)
>
>> Not much different from M$ in that
>> respect. Why are Linux users who hate the M$ Tax willing to
>> quietly pay
>> the Apple Tax?
>
> Because most of us are happy with the Apple OS and don't care to blow it
> away. Many of us *intend* to put Linux on there, or maybe even *do*
> make it dual boot, but if you ask around I think you'll find most end up
> running OS X 95%+ of the time anyway.
>
> Chris Hedemark
> UNIX System Administrator
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