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OSx86 Shutdown Rumors Explained

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the needle-in-a-command-stack dept.

n.e.watson writes "The AP has run an article that addresses recent rumors on the internet about Apple Legal shutting down the OSx86 Project, with a statement from an OSx86 administrator. From the article: 'The OSx86 Project Web site stated Apple had served it with a notice on Thursday citing violations of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the site was reviewing all of its discussion forum postings as a result. The site has always aimed to adhere to copyright laws and is working with Apple to ensure no violations exist, according to a statement by the site administrator.'"

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  1. Re:Seriously, why bother? by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing better than to see a historical troll on a quiet sunday afternoon. ;)

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    It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
    Be yourself no matter what they say
  2. Fully agreed. I mean, why bother? by maynard · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sitting here in front of a PDP-11/73 running RSX and trying to copy a 250 block file from this CDC-80 dishwasher 80MB hard drive to an RX08 8" floppy disk. It's taking freak''n forever! DEC addicts, go ahead and flame me, but why do you insist on using this ancient junk? Try something a little more modern. Like an Osborne. Or even a TRS-80. Sheesh!

  3. Poems by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 5, Funny

    There once was a dude with a Mac
    Who's code he tried to attack
    His grin was short-lived
    When Jobs did not forgive
    And gave him a boot in the sack.

    1. Re:Poems by cyberbian · · Score: 5, Funny

      The dashing young CEO Steve,
      Has a TPM stashed up his sleeve,
      He used it to track,
      All the people that hack,
      Or that's what he'll have you believe.

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      if I claimed I was emperor just because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
    2. Re:Poems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      For some reason I go this scary vision of Steve Jobs in a cowboy suit dancing and singing like crazy..

      We'll shut you down with d-m-c-a.
      We'll shut you down with d-m-c-a.

      You can get yourself clean, you can have a good deal,
      But if you don't do what we say ...

      We'll shut you down with d-m-c-a.
      We'll shut you down with d-m-c-a.

      Young man, are you listening to me?
      I said, young man, what do you want to be?
      I said, young man, you can make real my dreams.
      But you got to know this one thing!

      We'll shut you down with d-m-c-a.
      We'll shut you down with d-m-c-a.

    3. Re:Poems by AndyboyH · · Score: 3, Funny

      not mine, culled from (iirc) MacRumours but too good not to repost. If it's yours, it's an honour to repost this

      Roses are red
      Aqua is blue
      Don't pirate OSX
      Cause Apple like to sue

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      Baka Drew
  4. Well, I am sitting in front of... by MeatFlap3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    a Sun Enterprise 450, with four processors, 4 GBytes of memory and 10 SCSI drives... This is my HOME computer and I don't see that kind of poor performance. Maybe it is time for you to try Ultrix instead of RSX-11, at least you won't have the real-time interrupts bothering you... However, I do like my TRS-80 running NEWDOS-80!

  5. Oh yeah? Well vector you! by maynard · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like my instruction/data fetch cycle on 16 bit word boundaries, thank you! So you think you're fancy 64 bit address range is all that. With your Sun Enterprise this, and your CG3 megapixel sbus card that. Well, when I need to access memory out of its 32KW boundary I have to set an offset vector. And I like it that way! So my RK05 only stores 2.5MB per removable pack. And it consumes more than 1 KW. And my house lights dim every time it spins up. Well, I like it that way!

    What, I'm supposed to run some pansy Macintosh 8600 with all its fancy pictures of a dekstop with flippy disks and overlapping windows, and dialog boxes, and a mouse with only one button? BAH!

  6. Re:Apple going overboard? LEGAL security by P.+Niss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, its ok, they're Apple - EVERYBODY loves Apple :)

    Not nearly as much as everybody hates AOL :)

  7. why not... by wormnet.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    Roses are red,
    Violets are blue.
    If you hack my code,
    I'm going to kill you!

    --
    Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est - Sir Francis Bacon
  8. Re:Apple going overboard? LEGAL security by ebuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe a compilation could be assembled:

    Poems from My Childhood

    1.To Heathkit
    2.The fall of Dr. Norton
    3.Shadows of UUNET
    4.Borland, stop hurting youself
    5.Have you seen my Atari today?
    6.An Amiga I can't afford
    7.Memories of a text adventure game
    8.My talk with Hays (compatible)
    9.He's not just my penguin anymore

  9. Re:Information wants to be free by Savantissimo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "After OSX86 Project recieved it's DMCA shut down notice, people are moving discussion to the OSX86 China Forums"

    Ahhh...the irony! Moving out of the oppressive USA to China, where speech is free!

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    "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry