• floo@retrolemmy.com
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    Of course it is. It cost me nothing to download and install it.

    Unless you can show me how you’re actually paying for the operating system, then I don’t see how you can keep making this argument. It makes no sense.

    It’s the same nonsense is arguing that you have to pay for Linux just because the computer you are running on cost money.

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      You can download Windows for free too. But in both case you won’t have any support unless you are running it on the authorized hardware. Windows does it though a licence, Apple through the hardware kirks.

      Go on, try installing your “free” OS on a Thinkpad, and tell me if you manage to get it running.

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        I don’t understand how compatibility has anything to do with the cost of something. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, any operating system requires that you pay money for a compatible device to run it on.

        You’re just drawing some imaginary line at Apple computers. But that makes no sense.

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          23 hours ago

          Actually, the macOS software license specifically mentions to install macOS only on hardware built by Apple itself. The line is not imaginary lol

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            23 hours ago

            Nobody said it did. But it also doesn’t mean that macOS costs money.

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                12 hours ago

                I only ever had one: macOS is free. That is factually, correct

                And no one here has been able to prove otherwise in anyway. And no, “something else cost money so this cost money, even though it’s free“ is not a valid argument.

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                    11 hours ago

                    I only ever had one: macOS is free. That is factually, correct

                    And no one here has been able to prove otherwise in anyway. And no, “something else cost money so this cost money, even though it’s free“ is not a valid argument.