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Article #138648Re: pc's fight back (non political post)
From: thparkth
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:42
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:42
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On Jun 12, 4:17 pm, demibee <demi...@post.com> wrote: > Well, that *is* news to me. But to be clear, if I were to build a machine > that has the exact same components as a modern Mac, would I be breaking > any copyright/patent laws? Clearly you can't use the exact same components, because Apple won't sell you their power supply, or their EFI ROM, or their precise version of the Intel S5000 motherboard (which is distinguished by having some of the features disabled). But you could buy essentially the same thing from Tiger Direct etc instead. And OS X would run on it just fine, once you downloaded a cracked version of OS X. It's that last part - putting OS X on it - that is illegal in almost every case. Apple only licenses OS X to run on Apple hardware. Cheers, Andrew
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