If this were a discussion about Microsoft, I guess I might understand the invective being spewed about using lawyers to enforce intellectual rights issues. However, that invective would still be misplaced even if this were a discussion about MS. It seems to me that every company has the right to protect its interests. Apple's interests are quite transparent here: To make sure Apple gets paid for the work of its engineers and Apple survives another year.
It is also disingenuous to argue, as some in this thread have, that this fix allows users to revert to an earlier version, and thus some sort of public interest. That justification is grasping at threads. Every person in this discussion knows the majority of individuals using this hack will be using it to get an operating system for the cost of the upgrade.
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If this were a discussion about Microsoft, I guess I might understand the invective being spewed about using lawyers to enforce intellectual rights issues. However, that invective would still be misplaced even if this were a discussion about MS. It seems to me that every company has the right to protect its interests. Apple's interests are quite transparent here: To make sure Apple gets paid for the work of its engineers and Apple survives another year. It is also disingenuous to argue, as some in this thread have, that this fix allows users to revert to an earlier version, and thus some sort of public interest. That justification is grasping at threads. Every person in this discussion knows the majority of individuals using this hack will be using it to get an operating system for the cost of the upgrade.