Re: Re: [OT] Mac Vs Window (was [OT] 'kin Windows!)

[Andy Powell <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a "breach of contract", not "breaking the law".
There is a big
difference




On 10 Jul 2009, at 12:12, Paul Bendall wrote:

> Geoff,
>
> You are right. So if you buy a Mac OS license you are still breaking
> the law by installing it on non-Mac hardware. Problem is when you
> buy a license you aren't buying a product so the laws are different.
>
> I wish some group would challenge this, after all what actually is
> Mac hardware now that the Motorola / IBM PowerPC is dead? The CPU is
> Intel and most ofther components are just PC hardware with different
> firmware. So how is a Mac not an IBM PC clone, along with every
> other hardware vendor of PCs?
>
> It just makes me laugh (I used to be cross) that I can virtualise
> Windows, Linux et al on Mac Hardware but I can't virtualise Mac OS
> on PC hardware.
>
> Paul
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Geoff H <gwh12001@...> wrote:
>>
>> Not being a MAC user - but not being against it either - I thought
it
>> broke the EULA to install MAC OS on hardware that wasn't a MAC.
>>
>> Maybe I am wrong.
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> Andy Powell wrote:
>>> I run OS X on an Acer Aspire 3690 - that's a Celeron M!!
>>
>
>

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