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I'm assuming after a purchase of the OS. Is purchasing an OS and installing it on a computer it wasn't meant for akin to stealing toilet paper too?
by alanpca 14y ago
I'm assuming after a purchase of the OS. Is purchasing an OS and installing it on a computer it wasn't meant for akin to stealing toilet paper too?
- jws 14y agoYou could try to purchase the OS, but I'm sure it would cost billions of dollars, dwarfing your savings. You can buy a license for Apple built computers, but that isn't valid on a hackintosh and is part of the old business model anyway. Now Apple sells upgrades to existing licenses, which you get when you buy the Apple hardware. If you could buy a copy of the OS to use as you wish, I'd have no problem with a hackintosh. Much like I can do whatever I wish with a hard drive or network card. I suppose in the end, ethically, a hackintosh is the equivalent of a GPL violation. You haven't physically deprived anyone of a material possession, but you have benefitted by using their intellectual work against the license they have chosen. (At least you aren't leaving some poor guy in a restroom with no toilet paper.)