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

[Andy Powell <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to add to this


The EULA uses the phrase:

"Apple-labeled computer" - not branded or manufactured, labeled.
I got
an apple sticker with my ipod.



On 10 Jul 2009, at 13:35, Andy Powell wrote:

>
> 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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