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JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours agoHere you go cnx-software.com/…/h-265-hevc-license-pricing-upd…
The license to use macOS is not free. You must run it on a Macintosh computer and, keeping in terms of the license, cannot be run on non-Macintosh hardware. You must therefore purchase a Macintosh computer to use macOS. See Page 2, Section 2 of the Software License Agreement.
You keep repeating this argument of “show me where I can possibly pay for it” presumably because you know that it is not for sale and this is common knowledge.
What is being omitted here is that because anyone has the ability to put a PC of their own components together, Microsoft has two roads for these people: give Windows away where Microsoft sees none of that money back, or sell you a license to use Windows - they choose the second option. This is why you can buy a license for Windows. If you could only use prebuilt machines and were unable to make your own PC, the license cost would be passed onto the manufacturer and thus amortised in the final sale price.
Apple doesn’t need to do these extra steps because they are both the software vendor and manufacturer, thus the development costs associated in macOS is also amortised in the final sale price.
Please stop defending a trillion dollar corporation over specific pedantics and omissions. macOS is complementary software, it is not free.
floo@retrolemmy.com 15 hours ago
You sent me the license of agreement for a completely different piece of software and think that’s evidence of macOS costing money?
Are you hallucinating?
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
The first link is evidence that video codecs cost money and, as per that source:
This was in response to the earlier discussion about third party libraries costing money.
floo@retrolemmy.com 15 hours ago
OK, I guess some third-party libraries do cost money, which is to be expected. That doesn’t change the fact that macOS is free.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
It’s clear you’re acting in bad faith at this point - you’ve completely skipped over anything else I said in my original comment.