
The Flashback Files: MacOpinion: October 5, 1999 – Apple’s Abuse of Power
March 15th, 2010 admin

Apple was in the process of 1) crushing a 16 year old Canadian boy and his family over a Domain Name dispute, 2) hiding code in a recommended G3 ROM update that took control of the Mac away from the customer. Here’s how I called it at Macopinion.com in October, 1999.
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