Mac OS X Cracked For PCs Again

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica and The Register are reporting the Apple Kernel 10.4.8 has been cracked using Apple's publicly available source trees. This is the first time Apple was hit by hackers again since Maxxuss silently left the scene.The funny thing about this is the hacker who cracked OSx has released his sources according to APSL. He told Ars Technica in an interview that he did this because he believes in freedom of information, but will this now harm Apple's opensourceness?" From the article: "Unfortunately, free and legal are not necessarily the same thing, and the EULA for OS X requires Mac hardware. However, there is an interesting comment on the blog, one that asserts the requirement of Mac hardware is a "post-sale" restriction. Such a restriction may not be applicable in certain countries, such as those of the European Union. Expect to see what Apple Legal thinks about that shortly."

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[User 956]

However, there is an interesting comment on the blog, one that asserts the requirement of Mac hardware is a "post-sale" restriction.

If it's a post-sale restriction, and you're not buying it, problem solved.

Re:Apple 0x86 Mac = Expensive, Boring 0x86 PC

[Steffan]

As many people in this forum have noted, the 0x86 Mac is just an expensive plain-vanilla 0x86 PC that you can buy from Dell at a much lower price. There really is no way for Apple to "lock" its MacOS and to prevent it from being run on a Dell PC. Also, there really is no way for Microsoft to "lock" Vista and to prevent it from being run on an 0x86 Mac.

You keep using "0x86". I think you mean "x86", denoting [3456]86 chips. 0x86 is the standard representation for the hexadecimal equivalent of the number '134'. :)