> Meanwhile essentially every version of macOS is free If that was true I could download a macOS version to run in my VM. Rather macOS is unavailable, the only

> Meanwhile essentially every version of macOS is free If that was true I could download a macOS version to run in my VM. Rather macOS is unavailable, the only way to get a valid license is to buy a machine running MacOS. Which isn't that different from buying a Windows PC. The only reason no money changes hands from OEM to Apple is that Apple makes both the OS and the hardware, and they don't have a reason to pay money to themselves. Windows upgrades used to be a big thing, but have been effectively free for the last 8 years.