Changing legal terms and conditions is just one way of revoking my access. I'm not comfortable with the dystopian legal infrastructure that Apple's business rests on top of, but again, practically speaking, the GNOME cascade of attention-deficit teenagers has broken all of my code and forced me to upgrade literally orders of magnitude more than Apple has. When I switched back to OS X in 2009, the bits of random automation that I wrote in 2003 for using OS X was still working just fine (some of it even reaching back as far as the NeXTSTEP days!)

Of course, I could, legally speaking, spend literally all of my time maintaining a fork of GNOME 1.4 instead of just using the perfectly functional and useful software that Apple has provided me.

Basically, this anonymous comment is exactly everything that is wrong with the Linux desktop community: while your point is correct, it is also totally worthless, and you have deliberately ignored the entire substance of what I was saying to score some arbitrary rhetorical points in an argument you're having only with yourself.

(By contrast, I thought that the original post by mjg was actually very insightful, and pretty much all of his work has been on real, substantive stuff that is keeping people off of Linux as a desktop platform.)

((This post composed on a Mac.))