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fhd2 a day ago

According to ancient Apple ads, a "Mac" is not a "PC".

mghackerlady a day ago | parent [-]

Macs fundamentally can't be personal computers since they're entirely controlled by apple. Any computer running nonfree software can't be a personal one

kube-system a day ago | parent [-]

lol so the IBM PC isn't a PC?

wizzwizz4 a day ago | parent [-]

There are free BIOSes.

kube-system a day ago | parent [-]

IBM didn't ship any on their PC

wizzwizz4 a day ago | parent [-]

So? You can replace the ROM chip (or flash it, if it's an EEPROM). The whole point of free software is that you don't have to limit yourself to what the manufacturer says you can do.

kube-system a day ago | parent [-]

I was responding to:

> Any computer running nonfree software can't be a personal one

wizzwizz4 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Now that I understand it, this is an excellent point.