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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.
Apple: We're fine with 5% market share thank you very much, and we'd appreciate it if you would stop being so productive on our behalf.
This is dumb beyond words. Just suck it up, Apple. Everyone knows you're a software company.
First Apple looses iPod's patent to Microsoft. Stupidest corporate move in recent memory. Then they go Intel and complain when someone figures out how to use it on Intel hardware. People this is the freaking corporate control everything mentality that Apple has. They are like the religous right, our way or no way. Only they try to look cool and act hip all the while ramming it up your a**. They should just release OS X for all vendors and give MS some desktop competition because Linux will run the backend.
And not very intelligent.
I work tech support for Apple. I can say with sincerity that I get at least 3x more men than women calling in.
*sarcasm*
Call me sexist, but obviously women know how to work computers much better than men.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
It's also why I use Linux. Whether it's software or hardware, a monopoly is a monopoly.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
yes it is.
speaking the truth to those who hold, without sway, the opposite view, is like spitting venom. the business model is sacred even if it doesn't reflect reality.
they don't take kindly to enlightenment of any sort.
so please keep your toxin sacs in check and kindly mosey on out of here you sorry excuse for an ogre.
Science : Proprietary , Knowledge : Open Source
And they don't have to sell it to you.
If they give it to you under the clear understanding that you only install it on their hardware and you BUY it and then do otherwise you're in breach of contract, because the moment you forked over the money you agreed to this condition.
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Ummm.
"I'll sell you this piece of software, but only under the condition of
"Yes, I do"
"Okay, I sell it to you."
The way I see it, the moment you did fork over the money you said "Yes, I agree to your stipulation".
Most companies do this: "We give you the software under the following conditions, if you don't like it, return it to the dealer because we really don't want to sell it to you in any other way."
Just because you want to tinker and are willing to "lie" about it to the vendor doesn't really give you any rights to complain about the fact that they don't want you to do it.
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What I am trying to get at is that most technical products come with a "you can only use it with...." out of a variety of reasons, why should it be different for software?
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The last piece of software I was buying had a sticker on it saying: "If you open me you do agree to all the rules that we have laid out in that nice little piece of paper that was in the box."
IANAL, obviously, but still, the way I see this is that if you do open it and not return the box you do agree to that.
And if not: why not?
By your reasoning, what binds ANYBODY to abide by the GPL? They can just download it, then use the code and put it in their own software, after all, it was just lying around there, no?
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Let's assume for a moment that Apple will sell the boxes only under the condition to the store that they only sell it to people who are going to use it on Apple computers.
If that is the case and the sales person is NOT asking you about this / pointing it out / refusing to sell to you if you say no you're still in breach I would guess.
If you buy stolen property you do NOT gain any legal right to said property, I would guess the same would apply under these circumstances, no?
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