Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

I don't disagree with some of the sentiment, but there are factual problems with this post

On Dec 22, 2011, at 9:32 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
> Any sort of persistent storage support went bye-bye

CoreData
> (And why does it seem
> like every other software upgrade requires a hardware upgrade?)

A lot less so than microsoft.  The first OS I can't run on my Core Duo mac mini is Lion.  I believe it had 10.4 when it came out.  So the 10.5 and 10.6 upgrades were all good to go.  That is more than every other, and is a long period of time.  I bought the Mac Mini around May 2006.  So it was able to be upgraded a good 5 years and a few months and is still a great machine with 10.6.x on it and should last my MIL a few more years at least.  I consider that good value and better than MS, where the HW specs seem to jump an order of magnitude with each OS release.

My Core 2 Duo MBP I got end of 2007 runs Lion as does the 2008 MacBook and I expect to get many more years out of them.   My main machine, Mac Pro from mid 2008 should be a great and powerful machine for years to come, even though it will be 4 years old soon.


> Where I think the government is a fail: Why is any corporation lock-in
> allowed, given that it restricts consumers, and at face seems to
> violate various anti-trust/anti-monopoly/free competition laws on the
> books?

Lock-in?  Exactly what are you talking about?  Are you whining that Apple controls the OS?  Any OS you choose will have "lock-in" of some sort.

And as a strict constitutionalist, are you really calling for the government to do something about some bogus lock-in? Really?