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OS X on PC : Getting that pesky cat to run on a PC

4 points by habs 18y ago

there 18y ago
an awful interview, but the one quote that stood out for me was: > Davide: That’s what the hardware compatibility list is there for. The EFiX will work only on what we want it to work. This is to limit the users to exactly those that we want to use the module. so apple dictates mac os x can only run on the hardware they choose, then this company comes along and creates a way to run mac os x on... only the specific non-apple hardware that they dictate it can run on? what's the point?
sfk 18y ago
I'm surprised that so many people dismiss the legality of Psystar. Psystar is: - selling PCs - selling legal copies of OSX - patching copies *for interoperability* Now, reverse engineering and patching a product for interoperability is not generally believed to be illegal. Apple has two main arguments, the EULA and copyright infringement. From my European perspective, the EULA argument seems very weak. By EULA, Microsoft tried to prohibit sales of OEM CDs to private customers in Europe, and they got overturned in court. The reasoning was that it is not for a company to dictate what a customer will do with his property. The copyright argument seems stronger, except that an operating system is not a work of art or literature. You couldn't sell a painting with modifications, unless you have the permission of the artist. I'm pretty sure, however, that you could take a Mercedes engine, make minor modifications, put it into a BMW and sell the product, provided that the modifications are according to the customer's wishes.
dfox 18y ago
Small box connected to USB containing "several gigabytes of dedicated static RAM" that "takes over the low-level functions of the board" does not sound to me as something that is technically possible (and the SRAM part does not even sound reasonable). In my opinion, if this thing works, it works on some trivial principle, my guess is that it is more or less flash drive with some form of hypervisor, or scam...
bkmrkr 18y ago
Since I installed Vista on MacBook Pro, I didn't boot into OS X once.

4 points by habs 18y ago

there 18y ago

an awful interview, but the one quote that stood out for me was: > Davide: That’s what the hardware compatibility list is there for. The EFiX will work only on what we want it to work. This is to limit the users to exactly those that we want to use the module. so apple dictates mac os x can only run on the hardware they choose, then this company comes along and creates a way to run mac os x on... only the specific non-apple hardware that they dictate it can run on? what's the point?

sfk 18y ago

I'm surprised that so many people dismiss the legality of Psystar. Psystar is: - selling PCs - selling legal copies of OSX - patching copies *for interoperability* Now, reverse engineering and patching a product for interoperability is not generally believed to be illegal. Apple has two main arguments, the EULA and copyright infringement. From my European perspective, the EULA argument seems very weak. By EULA, Microsoft tried to prohibit sales of OEM CDs to private customers in Europe, and they got overturned in court. The reasoning was that it is not for a company to dictate what a customer will do with his property. The copyright argument seems stronger, except that an operating system is not a work of art or literature. You couldn't sell a painting with modifications, unless you have the permission of the artist. I'm pretty sure, however, that you could take a Mercedes engine, make minor modifications, put it into a BMW and sell the product, provided that the modifications are according to the customer's wishes.

dfox 18y ago

Small box connected to USB containing "several gigabytes of dedicated static RAM" that "takes over the low-level functions of the board" does not sound to me as something that is technically possible (and the SRAM part does not even sound reasonable). In my opinion, if this thing works, it works on some trivial principle, my guess is that it is more or less flash drive with some form of hypervisor, or scam...

bkmrkr 18y ago

Since I installed Vista on MacBook Pro, I didn't boot into OS X once.