Apple Embeds Message to OS X Hackers

zentechno writes "Apple has confirmed it embedded a message in the form of a poem to those who would hack its version of OS X on Intel hardware." From the article: "The embedded poem reads: 'Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he'd do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don't steal Mac OS!/Really, that's way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc.'Apple also put in a separate hidden message, 'Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext,' in another spot for would-be hackers."

Comments

Re:Endlessly expanding the definition of "stealing

[IntergalacticWalrus]

Nice try. That's a single license, for the computer that came with it only.

Re:Lame

[Jesus_666]

And no, artificially tying the product to their lackluster hardware offerings is NOT acceptable. Yes I said lackluster. Sure they are pretty but as PC hardware they just ain't all that. Cheap plastic cases with wimpy power supplies and little expansion for the desktop and useless one button laptops. Gimme a big manly box made of 2mil aluminum and a big ass stable power plant to start, then let me pick out a premium motherboard and memory and an drives of my choice. Why should the OS vendor get to make all of my hardware choices for me? And never forget the insane markup they get for their pretty but bland specced hardware.

By all means, have fun with your three kilogram space heater that makes noises like a vacuum cleaner even when it's not under load. I'll stick with my light, robust, barely audible iBook.
Besides, what's wrong with the Power Mac? It has an aluminium case, it supports 16 GB of RAM, it supports a quad G5... That should be enough to compensate for a lot of things. And if that's still not enough I have some email offers I could forward to you. ;)

Re:They do.

[elmegil]

Clearly you just don't fucking get it.

Nope. Clearly you don't.

[jscotta44]

Clearly you don't.

Back to you.