In gnu.misc.discuss Thufir Hawat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:35:17 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>>> They sell a comprehensive solution that is dependent on their >>>>> hardware, just like Actiontec sells a router as a comprehensive >>>>> functional device. >>>> No, actually, OS/X isn't dependent on Apple's hardware. It will run >>>> happily on a Psystar box. >>> But not legitimately, I understand. >> That's under contention in an American court at the moment. Should it >> be legitimate for a software manufacturer to dictate what sort of >> hardware his software package may be run on? I don't think it should >> be. > Isn't there a ROM chip which validates the hardware to the OS, else the > OS won't _____ (?install?). Psystar reverse engineered that chip? The actual mechanism Apple uses to screw the buyers of its OS has no bearing on whether they should permitted to do so. > -Thufir -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
