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Apple Embeds Message to OS X Hackers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-please dept.

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."

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  1. You are a slave by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Imagine that a company like shell told you what you could and could not do with the fuel bought at their points of sale. Oh you want to put our petrol in a lawnmower? You can't do that, we developed it only to be put into V8's.

    Image you went to your local baker and bought a loaf of bread and then were threathened with jail time for hacking it up into little bits and feeding it to the ducks when clearly the baker decided it was only to be used for human consumption.

    But computers are different. It causes people like you to behave like slaves who lick their masters asses and swallow everything they deliver.

    Apple sells software. Once it made the sale I can do with it what I want for my personal use. If I decide to take it apart and chance it to run on other hardware or to function in a way different then it was before then that is my right.

    Oh but wait of course, I get it. Games were never intended to run with trainers. So trainers are illegal. They also never meant for you to use someone elses savegame so savegames are illegal. They also do not come with a walkthrough so clearly walkthroughs are illegal.

    Running say program X on a emulator is obviously clearly illegal.

    But then I got a bit of bad news for you. Your lord and master Steve Jobs is breaking his own laws. By allowing windows software to run in emulation he is hacking that software to run on platforms it was never intended to run on. Could every windows developer sue whenever a mac user runs a bit of windows software?

    No, Apple has a right to cry foul when people give away its software for free but when I buy a copy of Mac OS X in the shops I am then free to use it in anyway I please. I can use it as a coaster. I can run it on mac hardware and I can hack it and run it on whatever I like. As long as I respect the fact that I got right to 1 copy of it running at anyone time I am in the clear.

    Anyone who tells you different is a fucking tool.

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    MMO Quests are like orgasms:

    You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.

  2. Re:Sense of humor... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apple has always had a sense of humor, unlike the darthwader of the sofware kingdom. One thing I remember specifically was when they had an internal code name called Sagan for a new Mac they were working on. When Carl Sagan heard of this, he threatned to sue Apple. Apple promptly renamed the project to BHA (Butt Head Astronomer).