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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. Slashdot is slow by wackymacs · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is up with Slashdot these days? This news is a few days old, most of the Mac news sites have already posted information about this - heck, even the newspapers picked this story up! Every-time I come to Slashdot I'm reading stuff that's either boring, irrelevant or out of date...

  2. Re:Mac OS X crippled by IntergalacticWalrus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Beyold the power of the BSD license, aka. the "please steal this open source code and put it in proprietary software" license. I laugh my ass off everytime a BSD zealot claims it is "superior" to the GNU licenses.

    (But seriously, as it was repeated countless times on slashdot, Darwin/MacOSX only contains very small bits of FreeBSD, namely the networking layer and a few userspace programs. Darwin/MacOSX is NOT, I repeat, NOT based on FreeBSD.)

  3. .. OSX86 China Forums - another Google opportunity by Marbleless · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmm, I wonder if Apple will ask Google to censor this so people outside China can't search for it ;)

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  4. Re:Don't be by MrHanky · · Score: 1, Troll

    ROFL. You are confused. The moderators don't come up with headlines, they give you +5, insightful for comments lacking any insight whatsoever. You know, for comments that are not worthy of discussion or even reading at all.

    Just face it, there's no good reason to come to Slashdot.

  5. Re:Pirate? by stlhawkeye · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you want to see for yourself, look up the UK sales of goods acts.

    Most of Apple's customers don't live in the UK. Apple's license has and continues to hold up under law.

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  6. Re:Pirate? by i_am_not_a_bomba · · Score: 0, Troll

    Interesting,

    Did they tell me that before i bought it?

    No?

    Then they can get fucked.

  7. My Translation by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll
    Your reality check for today, sans distortion field. Non free software limits your ability to share with your friends and so sucks life.

    Nothing new here.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.