>Oh no what will the poor most valuable company in the world do if we violate their made-up rules? It's an existential crisis, isn't it? Just because Apple is

>Oh no what will the poor most valuable company in the world do if we violate their made-up rules? It's an existential crisis, isn't it? Just because Apple is the most valuable company in the world doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same rights that every other company does. >Just because rich software dudes made up some rules doesn't mean they can make us follow them. lol. They actually can make you follow these rules, or at least attempt to, by suing you and anyone else who violates their EULA. They probably won't, and even if they do the courts might not hold it up, but they can certainly try if they want to. >Why should software have a EULA and not a screwdriver or a tractor or a pair of socks? I'm perfectly fine with socks and screwdrivers having EULA's. There are several reasons they don't and software does. 1. People will buy another company's socks and screwdrivers, because they are all pretty much the same. OS's are much more complicated and differ from each other more. 2. It's much harder to check if a physical object is violating it's EULA than software that is (almost always) connected to the internet. 3. Software can be easily copied an infinite number of times and is therefore more prone to certain kinds of misuse than physical objects. >Isn't this place called hacker news, don't hackers bend and break rules all the time, in the pursuit of knowledge and better technology? This place may be called hacker news but there are plenty of people here who are just software engineers, not hackers. Anyone who wants to be able to license or sell their software, or get paid for writing software that will be licensed or sold by someone else, should at least question the ethics behind making a hackintosh.