[CentOS] two cents or not two cents

On 12/18/10 1:25 AM, cpolish at surewest.net wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
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> <snip>
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>> To overgeneralize, that's one of the big differences between free and
>> commercial software.  Commercial software that has a customer base
>> that they can't afford to lose will rarely break backwards
>> compatibility, or if they do, they'll provide conversion tools to
>> manage the migration.
>
> <snip>
>
> Either you never dealt with Apple abruptly terminating support
> for your hardware - the CPU for instance - or the memory was so painful
> that you blocked it out :). On the flip side, Apple fans seem to be
> unusually resiliant. I'm not bitter...

Apple is not really a software company.  Everything you buy from them is 
tied/bundled with hardware.  I think their goal in updating software is always 
to force you to buy new hardware.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com