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floo@retrolemmy.com 3 days agoJust because Linux is open source doesn’t magically mean macOS isn’t free (which it is). This reasoning is so ridiculous. And it doesn’t get any less ridiculous them or you keep repeating it. You’re wasting your time arguing with an objective fact: macOS is free.
Unless Apple starts charging for it, there is literally nothing else that will change that. I’m sorry you just can’t accept that.
QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Are our definitions of “free” not the same? The way I think of “free” implies that, if the cost of a CPU/RAM/operating system is added to the overall cost of a device, that CPU/RAM/operating system is not free. You are paying for it.
You’re right, because you didn’t read my comment carefully. I wrote, clearly, that Linux is funded. That’s where the money for its development comes from.
Linux’s license means Google can’t close Android’s source and make manufacturers pay for it, it has other ways to profit from Android.
Windows is paid.
Every major operating system has some way to obtain money for its development. The most logical thing for Apple is to add macOS’s cost to the price of Mac devices. Given this definition of not-free, the probability of macOS not being free is higher.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
None of this changes the fact that macOS is free
I just don’t understand why you keep wasting your time arguing objective fact.
QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I have written four comments here regarding this (five when I send this one). How many have you written? I won’t argue over this any further. It’s not worth the time, for both of us.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
It’s not a competition, kiddo. But telling me you finally give up isn’t really the insult you think it is.
Bye!