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Apple Sends Hidden Message to Hackers?
RetrogradeMotion writes "The OSx86 Project is reporting on a hidden
message to hackers in Apple's new MacBook Pro. The new Intel-based OS X contains
a file named 'Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext' and is accompanied by the message,
'The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrighted materials
from unauthorized copying and use.' The file is not present in either the
PowerPC version of OS X or the Intel version shipped to developers last year.
While Apple has sent messages
to hackers before, is this a tounge-in-cheek introduction to the anticipated (and hated) Trusted Platform Module? Is locking down OS X a strategic necessity or a missed opportunity?" Obviously a big maybe here, but a good story just the same.
Yeah, I'm sure the average computer user intelligence is MUCH higher in other countries. Care to back this statement up, or were you just being a racist?
Disclaimer: I have a mac at work - its a Dual G5 - it was purchased for me for development and testing...
I've never had any problems with Windows and its platform on my pc - and I'm not kidding. With PC's though - unlike the mac - you get what you pay for. You buy crap - you'll end up with crap results. Its not just windows either - same with Linux.
Anyhow on stealing OSX - I'd gladly pay for OSX (just like I paid for Windows) if I could run it on my own PC. However I don't feel like paying 2000+$ for a machine thats basically a 300-600$ Intel PC. This is perhaps the greatest scam apple has ever pulled off.
Anyhow when Vista comes out I'll probably buy that instead - so yes it is a lost opportunity as far as I'm concerned.
What apple needs to realize that what they have is a platform and its in their best interest to be able to present this platform to as many people as possible (that is if they are interested in being Microsoft - which has done exactly this).
Most computer users are stupid. They'd try to run OS X on a typical PC, it'd suck and then they'd do the typical stupid computer user thing which is to say "this software fucking sucks."
Only a Mac user would think that a user can be both so smart as to acquire a pirated version of Mac OSX and yet so stupid as to go all flamey on OSX just because the pirated copy doesn't run well on their PC.
Next thing you know, you'll claim that Apple has to DRM OSX in order to keep these very same idiot-savant users from calling in and trying to get free support on their pirated copies of OSX.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
This just In: Apple looses case for ripping off Windows code in the new MacOS. It was noted that the prosecution was able to repeatedly cause MacOS to bluescreen by doing simple rudmentary tasks.
I read that last week on digg.com... :S
Be or ben't
I'm sorry, what WAS the story? I seem to have missed it, all I saw was a short blurb about something that's already been reported, and no expounding on it. What qualifies a story nowadays?
The generic PCs running Mac OS X will be novelties, more conversation pieces than serious work environments.
Don't you believe that for one minute. Remember the Cloners? Apple was getting their asses kicked by Power Computing, Daystar and Umax. If a graphics house can buy commodity PC hardware and run OSX + apps on it, why go with Apple?
There will not be a robust set of drivers, merely what ships on geniune Apple hardware.
That's the beauty of OSS. A lot of driver code is already out there for *BSD and linux.
Apple can break the hack used to get it to work every system software update.
Quite true. But somehow Micro$oft's "Windows Authentication" was evil.
Will they do so, sure, but it will be irrelevant to mainstream users.
Apple is irrelevant to mainstream users.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
The Mac mini is underpowered? Are you nuts? That little thing flies. Oh, and if you're not in the demographic for a Mac, don't complain. Get a nice PC, tweak it out and enjoy. Your whining serves no purpose.