Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: is the writing not on the wall Date: 16 Feb 2017 02:04:46 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net CPHPpQ98rwFIbimYzS93QgqWE6DNjf6C8UBmq8iW6j+24cDK+v Cancel-Lock: sha1:F9+4SkuVpvHmWJWYFVPQ5jl02S4= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:100399 On 2017-02-16, Electric Comet wrote: > > what do aapl have to hide "AAPL" is a stock symbol - not a company; and it has nothing to hide. "Apple" is the company. What do *you* claim they are supposedly hiding? Don't be a pussy about it; come out and say what you mean, or we will have to conclude you have no balls. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > or is it security through obscurity and that sort of works but there > are bug bounties now What the hell are you talking about? Seems like you're just trolling. > why is macos closed Why is anything closed? Another lame troll, I guess. > will macos always be proprietary Large portions of macOS aren't proprietary at all; other parts are. It's been this way from the start, and you can bet it will always be this way. And this is the case for most mainstream desktop operating systems. The real question is: Why does this bother you so much you feel the need to troll about it here in the Apple newsgroups? Just bored? -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR