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Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the almost-getting-away-with-it dept.

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.

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  1. Followed up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that new-speak for duped?

    1. Re:Followed up? by plj · · Score: 5, Funny

      War is Peace
      Freedom is Slavery
      Ignorance is Power
      Duplicates are News

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    2. Re:Followed up? by plj · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whoops, sorry. I deny that I would had read a version retranslated from Newspeak back to English, as an other child comment of yours suggested, though.

      But really, I've read a Finnish translation. I've only seen various quotations in English, but I thought I'd still have remembered quite a few of them. It seems that I was wrong.

      I admit that this is rather inexcusable, though. Am I taken to room 101 now?

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  2. embrace it! by dave420 · · Score: 1, Funny
    come on, apple... do it!

    and give me some freakin' nvidia kexts that work, dammit.

  3. Apple HQ by Musteval · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Terrible news, sir! People are installing our OS!"
    "Quick! To the Applejet!"

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    1. Re:Apple HQ by armitage_23 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wouldn't that be the iJet or PowerJet?

    2. Re:Apple HQ by bleaknik · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, they filed for the patent too late for those designs, and Microsoft swooped in to clean up. They scrapped them when they were required to pay $10 per mile...

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    3. Re:Apple HQ by eclectro · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wouldn't that be the iJet or PowerJet?

      That's correct. And if something were to happen during flight they could escape by using their iPods.

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  4. you know what Duke Ellington would say... by mooboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..to those running OSx86 on non Intel GMA900 hardware?

    It don't mean a thing if it aint got Quartz Extreme

    doo wop!

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  5. In related news... by Humorously_Inept · · Score: 4, Funny

    With its latest cease and desist order, Apple demonstrated its new iLawyer program. A method the corporation hopes to use for protecting itself against any forseeable legal disputes in a method that's easy for users to understand. The new, friendly interface speaks English instead of lawyerese and comes dressed in a soft white suit.

    Elsewhere, Microsoft claims to have patented the underlying concept of using lawyers as a high-level communications protocol.

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  6. Remember, Information just wants to be by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Funny

    patented by MSFT.

    C'est dommage pour la Pomme, mais si tout le monde peut utiliser ca, c'est tres cher pour la Pomme.

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  7. Re:Sad Mac by neuroking · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should I be annoyed that I was tagged a 'troll', or elated since you guys gave a +4 funny to that asschode's "Don't mean a thing if it ain't got Quartz Extreme"...

    Waaaaa! Don't knock a *nix or we'll beat you senseless with our mod points!

  8. Re:So Apple ARE evil!! by humina · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well you have some vague and unscientific evidence supporting your claim. As a slashdot reader this is enough for me to form my opinion. I'll go ahead and agree with you.

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  9. Re:So it starts... by noidentity · · Score: 4, Funny

    "M$ has to have an entire building just for their piracy group."

    I hear they're working overtime to get new features into Vista.

  10. Re:So Apple ARE evil!! by admactanium · · Score: 2, Funny
    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.
    i'm sure apple is very concerned that your opinion of them went from "bad and misinformed" to "extremely bad and misinformed".
  11. Re:Now that's the Apple I know! by gerardrj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple is a monopoly in the Apple market.

    I nominate that for the "dumb-ass statement of the month" award.

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  12. Re:Yes but... by wasted+time · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cost of a DVD or set of CD's : 5 bucks
    Cost of a Manual and a nice little box : 5 bucks
    Retail cost of an OS: 139.99 - 299.99
    profit margin: 1300-2900%

    Confusing the difference between markup and margin - priceless.

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  13. Re:So Apple ARE evil!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >I've always seen Apple as company selling pretty >things to women who want to send email.

    And of course, we all know that geeks are the very definition of Manliness!

    Don't make it easy to use or work out of the box, the women might start using it.

  14. In the words of Master Yoda... by Herbmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Begun, this clone war has.

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  15. Re:So it starts... by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they don't have to sell it to you

    Of course not. But if they choose to, they don't get to impose extra conditions.

    because the moment you forked over the money you agreed to this condition.

    The only thing implicit in handing over money is that I want to buy the thing. You don't get to make assumptions about whether or not the person agrees with your additional contract - if you want to do that, you need to present the contract, allow them to negiotate, and then explicitly ask if they clearly accept or not.

    Oh, and this post may only be modded up - after all, the moment anyone chooses to moderate my post, they have clearly agreed to this condition...