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Interesting. I guess it's not the first but does the MacOS EULA really allow for this? Or does AWS have a special license? Which would beg the question as for t
by KingMachiavelli 6y ago
Interesting. I guess it's not the first but does the MacOS EULA really allow for this? Or does AWS have a special license? Which would beg the question as for the need of real hardware. (Sure you can break a EULA but at some point it would violate ToS and Apple could easily block updates).
> The instances are launched as EC2 Dedicated Hosts with a minimum tenancy of 24 hours.
This almost sounds like they are using first sale doctrine to just lend it for a day. Like I can lend a movie but I can't make my own movie theater (right?).
Also I'm very curious of these are in-tack macs or shucked and put in a frankenstein case of dozens.
- hjuutilainen 6y agoThere’s a good blog post from Macstadium explaining the recent EULA changes. 24 hours is mentioned there. https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/developers-big-sur-and-vindication https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/developers-big-sur-and-vind...
- yborg 6y agoAnd now we know the real reason for those changes.
- samtheprogram 6y ago> Powered by Mac mini hardware and the AWS Nitro System Similarly, other Mac server farms use Apple hardware. I can't think of the name right now but I remember one popular provider racking trash can Mac Pro's.
- moonchild 6y agoThat's a minimum of 24 hours, not a maximum. As the sibling says, this is condition of apple's EULA.
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