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Is Piracy the Pathway to Apple Profit?
An anonymous reader writes "Over at Apple Matters Chris Seibold writes an interesting piece hypothesizing that Apple's strategy may bank on people pirating OS X for their Intel boxes."
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How long before my next machine comes with the words "Don't steal operating systems" on the plastic wrap?
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Let's hear it for iPiracy.
But all the porn files on torrentspy come as .exe's....
Are Alliterative Headlines Hopelessly Hokey?
Search your feelings, Slashdot editors.
I know that if I "stumbled" upon OSx86, it might "end up" on my computer...
Its because OSX actually works (and I'm sure Apple will make sure it works perfectly on their hardware - consequently on most of the other x86 stuff too)...
Bring on the free advertising...
Sleep: A completely inadequate substitution for Caffeine.
That goatse.cx pic was imbedded in the selfbooting x86 Tiger easily enough.
Yuk.
Apple uses the same security system on the development boxes that James Bond used on his brown Lotus Esprit (that is, it explodes when you open it :-)
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1. [Generic business idea]
2. Piracy
3. Profit!
Now, of course, MACs are quite good....
Yes, I really love Media Access Controls, too.
R.Mo