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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."
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.)
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.