Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM

An anonymous reader submits "Several people have discovered that the new Intel kernel Apple has included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM. More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized."

Comments

Not to be an Apple apologist...

[interactive_civilian]

I'm not trying to apologize on behalf of Apple or anything, and this move is making me think a bit harder about what I'm going to do when I need a new computer in the next year or two.

However, Baricom said:

My whole plan was to switch away from Microsoft to Apple due to the (relatively) benign copy protection in OS X and other products.

Well...if you think about it, they never really needed DRM for their OS before. Basically, using PPC was their DRM. Now, they kind of have to do it, don't they? Otherwise someone will hack OS X to work on any machine with an Intel processor and that will cannibalize Apple's hardware sales.

Like I said, I'm not being an apologist...just explaining their reasons.

Like I said, this move might cause me to reconsider my choices for my next computer. Part of it will depend on whether or not the DRM gets in the way of things any more than running on PPC gets in the way of things (which for me, it doesn't).

Re:Isn't this expected?

[Council]

Why should Apple care if you pay for, or even "steal" for that matter, a copy of OSX if it isn't going to generate any more costs for Apple?

When I sit there with my $500 paycheck considering whether or not to buy a Mac Mini, I'm doing it largely because of OS X. If it were available outside the Mac line, I would not buy a Mac, and I would pay Apple less.

I'm not trying to speak for the masses in economic terms; I'm relating my personal thought process. Though I'm sure there it's not an uncommon one.

(note: I should be modded -1 redundant because this point has been made many times in the past and should be considered a trivial component of the overall argument. Or is this a deceptive attempt to rope the power-drunk mods into falling for reverse psychology and modding me up? Am I revealing all this in the hopes of being modded down ironically? Are you outwitting me or playing right into my hands? You may never know!)