Panther's FileVault can damage data

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Fri Nov 7 20:06:55 PST 2003


At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>   Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and
they've
>pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's
hardware
>worked with theirs and/or their OS.

I thought that was half the point of Apple ---you play only with us, and
we make
sure it all runs smoothly.  (The other half being a once-superior UI).
But you pay.

If you want cheaper hardware that you have to wrestle with, you get a
PC.
Isn't that why Fry's has a return policy?

A policy is a set of tradeoffs.   Free people choose what they want.





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