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The Prospects For Virtualizing OS X
seriouslywtf writes in with a look at the current state of the question: will people eventually be able to run Mac OS X in a virtual machine, either on the Mac or under Windows? Ars Technica has articles outlining the positions of two VM vendors, Parallels and VMWare. Both have told Ars unequivocally that they won't enable users to virtualize OS X until Apple explicitly gives them the thumbs up. First, Parallels: "'We won't enable this kind of functionality until Apple gives their blessing for a few reasons,' Rudolph told Ars. 'First, we're concerned about our users — we are never going to encourage illegal activity that could open our users up to compromised machines or any sort of legal action. This is the same reason why we always insist on using a fully-licensed, genuine copy of Windows in a virtual machine — it's safer, more stable, fully supported, and completely legal.'" And from VMWare: "'We're very interested in running Mac OS X in a virtual machine because it opens up a ton of interesting use cases, but until Apple changes its licensing policy, we prefer to not speculate about running Mac OS X in a virtualized environment,' Krishnamurti added."
I call bullshit on this. Firewire is rarely found on garden variety intel hardware. You can also dig into differences like power management, displays, etc. What could you possibly run in a virtual OS X that you couldn't run on berekley unix or Windows?
watch the fanboys wriggle.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
House... pathetic. You are a screaming by BSDI who sell roots and gets on = 1440 NetBSD 800 mhz machine lube is wiped off posts on Usenet are want them there.
You? Personally? They can sue you for having the wrong shaped feet and probably bankrupt you before you even put your mishaped hoofs into the courtroom. Stop trying to look for logic and fairness in copyright law, there's none there.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Buying the product does not make you an owner of a copy of the work.
You've mentioned elsewhere in this thread that you find copyright law to be scary & confusing and noone really understands it. Given that, I've no idea why you believe you can be so authorative in this post.
Get a clue before posting on copyright issues in future.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Apple make their money on the pretty but vastly overpriced hardware. So any moves to allow people to sidestep buying their hardware will be squashed.