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New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-day-for-big-cats dept.

the linux geek writes "InfoWorld has an article informing us that an early beta of Mac OS X 10.5 has been leaked. This appears to be the same build Steve Jobs previewed at WWDC, and contains most of the new features, including Time Machine and Spaces." From the article: "Attendees at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) received copies of the beta ware and had to sign legally binding agreements not to let Leopard stray onto file-sharing networks. Perhaps someone didn't read the not-so-fine print? MacUser reports that this version of Leopard is indeed legit, unlike a fake one that was reportedly making its rounds last week. The version of Leopard available on BitTorrent is 4.3GB, containing 93 files."

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  1. Well, by Klaidas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, if they gave it out... how could they possibly think that it won't leak? Software, music, movies leak without giving them out. And now, there's the release of an expensive operating system and they give it out...
    I mean, how could they be sure that just signing the document would stop anyone? Sharing music, movies, etc. is illegal, but look at ftp servers, emule, torrents, etc.
    It the Internet, apple, think different!

    1. Re:Well, by andrewman327 · · Score: 5, Insightful
      It might surprise you, but most people really do follow the "not so fine print." Look at how many people hhave access to Windows source code yet there has only been one well known leak.


      This shouldn't really matter to Apple anyway. This will increase speculation about the OS on sites like /. and any publicity is good publicity. The mainstream media will probably not even care about this whatsoever. A quick glance at Google News shows that very few non-geeky news sources have picked up the story.

      --
      Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
    2. Re:Well, by TheGreek · · Score: 5, Insightful
      They could have given a slightly different copy to everyone present. Just change a few bytes here and there.
      Prohibitively expensive to do on pressed DVDs, but I've long thought that Apple's seeding servers should do precisely that.
  2. Garbage Collection in Objective C by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the *big* feature. Screw the user interface tweakage, being able to forget about release pools and the rest of the manual storage management twaddle is going to be amazing.

  3. Re:A little conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Crazy idea here...
    Yes, yes it is. Why do these retarded conspiracy theories always get modded up? Even if Apple were intending to sell Mac OS X for third party PCs they still wouldn't care about compatibility on some random hobbyist/pirate's setup. Never mention the effort required to collect the data from random blogs all over the internet.