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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."
for being "News for Nerds," ./ sure is late on a lot of stories, especially this one.
What a lame bunch of whiny bitches they sound like.
Newsflash, OS X will be hacked to run on generic hardware because A) people want to do it and B) just because they can. Apple whining about it and trying to stop it only makes group B more motivated. Personally it won't matter for me because I doubt any of the hacked versions will run on AMD processors, but if it did I'd probably download it and have a look because the last version I saw was 10.0 and there aren't exactly a lot of Macs here in the wilderness of Southwest Louisiana. If I actually liked it I'd probably buy a copy just to be fair about it, even if Apple wouldn't officially support it.
But don't expect me to get all worked up in a big pity party for the idiots. I really don't see anything wrong with bootlegging a product that the publisher refuses to publish. Same way I WOULD have repurchased the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD to replace my aging VHS print..... but instead I have bootleg a DVD set because George Lucas won't sell them. (No, the remake isn't the same thing. Sorry, Han shot first.) Same principle, Apple refuses to sell the product so a certain mindset of people see it as a challenge to correct the flaw.
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.
Democrat delenda est
step 1: go to digg, copy links.
step 2: wait a couple days, post articles on slashdot, and hope no one notices.
step 3: profit!
> And you've been around /. long enough to know what would happen, especially on the Apple section, hence -1
> Interesting Flamebait would be appropriate.
Thats why I did it. At least a few fanboys will be exposed to thoughts that haven't been hand selected for them by Steve and what the hell, as you noted I have been here awhile and have plenty of karma to burn. Since the karma cap went in ages ago there really isn't any reason NOT to stir things up once in awhile.
Democrat delenda est
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...
You go to slashdot for discussion? Get out of here. Next you'll be telling me that the resulting discussion is nuanced and valuable.
I come to slashdot to see Linux-fanatic sysadmins circlejerk. It does not cease to be fascinating.
-- Alper
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.)
Hmmm, I wonder if Apple will ask Google to censor this so people outside China can't search for it ;)
--I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
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.
Most of Apple's customers don't live in the UK. Apple's license has and continues to hold up under law.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
Interesting,
Did they tell me that before i bought it?
No?
Then they can get fucked.
Nothing new here.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.