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post #21 of 31
2/1/07 at 10:55pm
I think the main thing holding me back from buying a macbook is my hatred for intel integrated graphics. I know macs aren't much of gaming PCs but I don't like to share my video memory with my system memory. Unfortuanately I don't have the money either to afford the dedicated graphics of a macbook pro. For now it looks like I will find something similar enough in specs and purchase an OSX license so technically I could legally use a hacked version. What I get wont be nearly as funtional or pretty but at least I will get to enjoy some good solid OSX86 computing.
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post #22 of 31
2/2/07 at 2:36am
technically i believe even if you buy os x, it is illegal to hack it to run on generic hardware, IIRC
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post #23 of 31
2/2/07 at 9:05pm
I noticed that there was a "legal" kernel that had been released maybe that is legal to run? So many issues involved.
The reason Apple has always had a solid product is because I would expect a company that makes it own hardware could code specifically for its own hardware also. Windows has a poor design as far as operating systems are concerned and the fact that drivers and support for practically all devices on the market are for Windows I would expect that things will have issues.
Microsoft has proved that software companies with people that are good at wording licensing can be VERY sucessful. Apple only makes money as a hardware company and while they do well, they don't do as well as M$ As much as I want to see Apple officially start selling OSX for the PC I have a feeling it would end up reducing the quality of the product.
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post #24 of 31
2/3/07 at 6:11am
The legal kernel is Darwin. Darwin is a fully functional BSD/Mach operating system that is open sourced by Apple and freely downloadable. Darwin is the foundation of OS X.

The illegal part of this is taking the freely available foundation and then placing the rest of the OS X house on top of it.
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post #25 of 31
2/4/07 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
The legal kernel is Darwin. Darwin is a fully functional BSD/Mach operating system that is open sourced by Apple and freely downloadable. Darwin is the foundation of OS X.

The illegal part of this is taking the freely available foundation and then placing the rest of the OS X house on top of it.


Just curious, does that make is illegal to use it or to produce it (the OS)?
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post #26 of 31
2/5/07 at 12:02am
if you're not apple and you're trying to produce their OS, then yes it would be illegal. if by chance someone were to "hand make" their own OS on top of Darwin they'd be more than welcome to. so long as it was/would be original code, as apple would be looking thru it with a fine tooth comb for any plagiarism, it should all be kosher.
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post #27 of 31
2/5/07 at 2:12am
While Darwin is opensource it is covered under the Apple Public Source Licence and though it does conform to Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation guide lines I'm not sure if it's possible for someone to take Darwin and create a new OS on top of it without violating Apple's licences.

The APSL is here if anyone wants to read it: http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/
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post #28 of 31
2/6/07 at 2:02am
I also made the switch to a macbook pro from a dell inspiron 9300.
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post #29 of 31
2/6/07 at 5:55pm
@ comptr welcome to the club buddy mbp's are great system's

@ kakze and triadone I am not sure you interpreted what i said correctly. What I meant was If you use a pre produced version of osx86 is it illegal? Or is it just creating the osx86 to work with PC's that is illegal?
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post #30 of 31
2/6/07 at 7:51pm
Running OS X on non Apple Hardware is against the EULA no matter how you get it running.
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post #31 of 31
2/7/07 at 11:53pm
welcome to the mac world!
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