Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 17, 2005 @11:01AM 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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Let's be honest... by agent+dero · 2005-08-17 11:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Like they didn't expect it at all...

Anybody who is surprised by this is/was just plain naive....

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Yes but... by sterno · 2005-08-17 11:20 · Score: 1, Redundant

The question is this: If you could buy the OSX for X86, would you still buy Apple hardware?

Apple doesn't want to sell you a $100 operating system, they want to sell you a $1000 computer. If you can buy a $400 computer from Dell and load OSX onto it, Apple makes less money.

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