[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:06 , Mark Benson wrote:

> Sorry, I missed a bit...
>
> 2008/7/29 Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>:
>> And the term "Linux" includes more discrete distributions than I  
>> can count,
>> with all manner of varying business and licensing models..
>
> Almost without exception (**almost**) they have some strain of open
> source, no cost version which is updated frequently and released at no
> commercial charge.
>
> Apple charges money for OS X. They make a decent overhead on it as
> it's about a dollars worth of CD, manual and sleeve tops and a few
> dollars distribution per unit to ship them about the place as
> palletized shipments, and/or boxes of units.

...which means it should be trivial for them to offer a cheap update  
for current owners.


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Shannon Hendrix
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