Pot, kettle

[Gary]

You mean who greases the sausages in charge? 
I always found it strange how MS get tarred with one brush and Apple do not. I agree, if it's unfair, stop em doing it. But apply it to everyone, not just MS.
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Oh, same goes for Sony and the PS3. They are legally allowed to hack my pc with a rootkit but I'm not allowed to open up the PS3? I did send Sony my Eula for acceptig my custom. 

I get the feeling that if we represented Microsoft, Apple, Google or Sony we would probably be trying to protect our products in the same way tbh. Businesses do not get that big by playing nice. Equally they want to keep control over their products to stop hacking and the loss of the huge sum of cash they make by having us tied to their software. Equally there is the argument that keeping it all in house means its runs more smoothly.

[Technical Ben]

So? Then they should stay small like IDNet.
Else play nice. It's not true you have to be evil to succeed. Else (sorry to use the example) we would all be mini Hitlers/[insert your own horrid dictator].
I either want Sony to lay off the rootkit, or allow me to do what I like to their hardware!
Pot, Kettle.

[Rik]

The relatively low market share has, I believe, protected Apple from competition enquiries so far. That may change in the future, but I'd bet that it is legal to only allow OS X to run on Apple hardware, simply because it will have been written to work with that hardware and that hardware only. I don't believe any regulator would insist on it being re-written to work with alternative hardware.

[Technical Ben]

Code can be copyrighted. Thankfully, screwdrivers cannot... now where did I put that phillips head...

[Rik]

Which was, I think, patented...

[Technical Ben]

Yes... the joke...
However, I don't see there being any restrictions on who can use one. Next we will have nails that refuse to budge if you don't sign an agreement.

[Rik]

They already exist. The agreement is usually with the Devil.