Mac OS X Software License Agreement (Section 2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions):

"This license allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time."

... so that excludes clones.

Clones are not, and never have been, Apple-labeled (unless you can tell me different). Apple has only ever licensed Mac OS X to run on Apple's own computers. All use of Mac OS X on non-Apple computers (such as clones) is unlicensed.

QED

There's a huge difference between running systems which are *unsupported* (this may be unwise, or imprudent, or professionally risky - but at least it's your judgement call) and running systems which are *unlicensed* (this is in many jurisdictions illegal - which makes it the authorities' judgement call). Of course, this doesn't bother me much, and I don't suppose it bothers you at all, but recent experiences have led me to surmise that there are some legal hotshots patrolling this list - so, clone users, watch out.

!!!

Apple's up to it's ears in lawsuits coming and going so I hope they're not shortsighted enough to stalk such a minor piece of the computing continuum as Unsupported OS X. But then I hope to win a free million dollars one day and that hasn't happened either.


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