Mac OS X Intel Build Addresses Pirating

aardwolf64 writes "ThinkSecret has an article up detailing information about the newest Mac OS X 10.4.3 builds (which is currently said to fix almost 500 bugs with 10.4.2.) What is more interesting is the release of 10.4.2 (Intel) to developers. Universal binaries built with the new version (and apparently all subsequent versions) will not work on systems running the older version of the OS."

Comments

Re:Give it a couple of days...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, they learned from the Republicans that if you name something the right way, people will think it's a good thing. For example, the Death Tax, the Clear Skies Initiative, Partial Birth Abortions. These are all bullshit but they've got millions of people siding with them because they picked a clever name. Of course, the dems are fucking morons and don't know how to deal with it so that helps too.

All the effort...

[Junta]

There seems to be a lot of excitement of cracking OSX to run on generic hardware. Seems like a painful waste of effort fighting Apple to keep OSX running on the hardware of your choice again and again before any shiplevel software is to be seen.

For those that really want to hack OSX in a meaningful way, don't pursue the developer builds in any public way. Feel free to privately figure out, but know that as soon as you try to cash in and brag and demonstrate your hack, the next developer build will just overcome it and obsolete previous builds (since no non-developer end-users are supposed to have it they can do it). If everyone managed to hold back their hacks until a publicly available release with real end-users was out, they couldn't so readily break compatiblity.

But if the developers want to scratch their itch in a more constructive way long term without having to fight a company with conflicting goals over the platform, GNUstep is certainly a project that could benefit from the effort. I use a GNUstep based environment as much as possible, and with some TLC, you could have a relatively OSX-like environment complete with mostly compatible API for applications. Their are some little rough spots, but primarily it lacks in a sophisticated look (improve camaelon) and some nicely-fitting aplications (using GNUStep apps is nice, but jarring when you go to an appl like firefox or gaim that doesn't behave GNUstep-ish.