Re: Why Linux on Apple Hardware?
What about because it's your right to do so if you want. You paid for it, you own it.
One only has the right to run Linux on it if Apple have said "it runs Linux". The right then is a consumer right (as opposed to human, god-given or any other kind of right), because one can then argue that you parted with one's money to buy the thing specifically because of Apple's claim, "it runs Linux". If it somehow fails to run Linux, one is fully entitled to complain, get a refund, or expect Apple ot make good.
However, in this specific case Apple have explicitly said, "it does not run Linux". [Whether or not that has been made sufficiently clear up front on their buying portal is a matter for a separate debate, especially given their previous lengthy history of not specifically standing in the way of penguinistas]. In this circumstance, "it does not run Linux", one has no right whatsoever to have it run Linux, because doing so implies that one somehow has the power to force Apple to change the design of their hardware / software. And that would be lunacy. They have a right to sell whatever they want, they cannot be forced to do something they don't want to do.
One's only recourse is a purchasing boycott.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
