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Well now you've gone in a completely different direction with it... How many companies whose products we all use on a daily basis are directly or indirectly in

• kragen 5y ago
  The problem isn't that Apple is "directly or indirectly involved in abhorrent practices." The problem is that the abhorrent practices in question are specifically the licensing and technical design decisions of MacOS, and how they affect the owners of Apple M1 computers, especially those who run MacOS on them. I'm not talking about arm's-length issues like the extent of Apple's responsibility for Foxconn-factory worker welfare and to what extent Foxconn's workers are better or worse off than they would have been without Apple—whatever the truth of the accusations, they are unaffected by whether your Macintosh runs Linux or MacOS. I'm talking about proprietary software licensing turning your own computer into a weapon against you, and reserving the understanding and control of the world you live in (the birthright of every human being) for Apple's anointed priesthood of licensed developers, who retain their status purely at Apple's pleasure. This is the central issue solved by installing a free-software operating system like Linux.