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Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention
RetrogradeMotion writes "The OSx86 Project is reporting that Apple has served a legal notice to MacBidouille, a French news site that posted videos and instructions on running Mac OS X on x86 hardware . You can find an English translation of the MacBidouille notice on the OSx86Project's forums. This is the first known legal action by Apple regarding the hacked version of OS X and calls into doubt the future of other news sites, similar to the OSx86 Project." Slashdot previously covered the story of hacking Mac OS X onto non-Apple hardware and followed up again a few days later.
Seriously this sort of thing really damages my opinion of the companies who do it.
I've always seen Apple as company selling pretty things to women who want to send email. (brand me sexist if you like but we all know it's true) A sort of cute and cuddly company, not focused on tech like the linux/open source world and not ruthlessly focused on world domination like M$.
I don't buy Apple stuff coz it's never worth the money but I didn't hate them.....
This sort of thing make me hate them.
Who are they going after?
What harm has been done to them?
They're picking on geeks with the desire to hack and make stuff work!
This is the market they should be trying to grab away from microsoft and open source.
Karma: Bad. Calmer, good.
...there's interest being shown toward running your OS on generic Intel-based hardware, and you release the hounds???!? Goddamnit, John Scully was right to fire you.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Yeah! Last month when I paid a company to use their carpet cleaning machine for a day I read that agreement they made me sign and said "Screw this - it's anti-consumer!" and I kept the cleaner. Contracts are stupid!
We shouldn't have to return videos to the video store either! Down with The Man!!
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Never been known to fail..."
+5 moderation. That's funny, all you have to do is post a link to get a +5 moderation even though the rest of your post is filled with baseless zealotry. So, are you a Linux fanboy? Or a Windows fanboy?
The fact of the matter is that OS X IS better than Linux on the desktop. Accept it. You sound like you have a simple case of jealousy. Get over it.
I would find it entertaining if your friends who use Apple's installed some various Linux PPC distribution on their Mac's just to show the Linux fan-boys that they can run Linux too. Will it be stable? No. Is it practical? No. But, hey, maybe some of them will even like it and switch.