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Apple wins clone suit

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davidnix71:
Apple makes money selling hardware that happens to have a solid OS pre-installed with plenty of useful and necessary apps. They are doing it the way that they need to in order to stay in business. The only time I had a kernel panic on a Mac was in Panther on a dialup connection that was so bad that the OS thought the modem was failing.

If Apple allowed installing OSX on anything, then they would have to put a serial number on it and have it call home to run like Windozes. I wouldn't use if it that were so.

Calum:
hmm. in my opinion it's possible to sell O/Ss that don't send information back to the vendor, that's a separate issue.

piratePenguin:
I dont think apple needs to make os x call home and require a serial key to have users pay, I think the entirety of their current user base would be brought to tears if the software simply said "i hope ur not stealing tut" at first boot. This might even make most of them pay twice.

:D

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