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Story: Apple Urges Wired To Remove Hackintosh Video, ArticleTotal Replies: 5
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tuxchick

Jan 15, 2009
1:52 PM EST 		Sheesh, why does everyone cave at the first fist-wave? Especially large organizations with captive lawyers on staff? Yo, First Amendment anyone? Journalistic freedom? Oh I know, encouraging people to do what they want with their own property enables terrorism, but it's the principle of the thing.
tuxchick

Jan 15, 2009
2:00 PM EST 		Oh, I missed the original article:

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/gadget-lab-vide.html
Quoting: I go over the process of installing an illegal, hacked version of Mac OS X Leopard on an MSI Wind netbook.


But I'm still feeling grumpy about it.
Steven_Rosenber

Jan 15, 2009
5:54 PM EST 		How many Mac users do a major upgrade and actually pay Apple the $129 per seat to go from 10.4 to 10.5?

I'd say "not many."

They're not going after these people in the same manner as Microsoft with the latter's "Genuine Advantage" thing.
techiem2

Jan 15, 2009
6:57 PM EST 		As I recall from the Psystar mess, the EULA specifically forbids running OS X on non-Apple hardware. Thus the legal issues. Yes Yes, silly I know. But such are Proprietary Software EULAS.
azerthoth

Jan 15, 2009
7:01 PM EST 		Lots of things in EULA's, showing how to by pass them does not violate the EULA, other than documentation that one person actually has. Kind of like the iPhone/AT&T and the DMCA which has a provision in it allowing people to unlock and use their cell phones on ANY provider, yet Apple did an update that intentionally bricked 'cracked' iPhones.
ColonelPanik

Jan 15, 2009
8:08 PM EST 		Er, maybe lawyers are another business model?

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