Hi,
Just so I can quote something official in people's faces when they stupidly ask about installing Windows on a Mac on forums, could someone just give me a good official response I can give?
Thanks!
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mattireland It used to be the iLand..
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What... are you talking about?
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What are you talking about? Theres no problem installing windows on a mac...
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I read him as saying installing OSX on a PC...
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I'm just still wondering what the question is, lol.
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He asking if it legal to install mac os on a window computer.
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From the OS X license agreement.
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That's not legislation though... that's a license agreement. Whether it's legally binding or not is a separate question, as is what would legally qualify as an "Apple-labeled computer".
The fact is, neither the U.S. congress nor any legislature I know of has passed legislation specifically addressing the issue of installing OS X on a PC... and I've never heard of any court anywhere making any ruling about it either way. -
A computer that has the apple symbol on it. DUUUHHHHHHH. And i think on cnet they did say that getting osx to run on a pc is kinda horrible. Not to mention you are breaking some fedral code i think. Thats what they said.
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But Macs can install Windows fine...
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There is no federal code that explicitly states that you are not allowed to use OSX on a non-apple computer. If you do so, you would be breaking a license agreement, and by doing so, breaking the United States Copyright Act. However, actual punishment (if any) has yet to have been tested in a court of law.
As a side note, I don't see how it's hard to distinguish between an "Apple-labeled computer" and a "Non Apple-labeled computer".
On the flip side, I believe only the Vista Ultimate and XP licenses allow you to virtualize them, such as with Parallels. -
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Honestly, do you really think that will stand in court?
Wait...a woman is suing Apple for not allowing WMA on iPods. Man I hate the court system. -
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I had no trouble at all getting leopard to run on my PC..
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...and banned.
Is this you?
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Discussion on running OS X on non-Apple hardware is not allowed here on NotebookReview.
I know it can get complicated when looking at EULAs and such, but here on NotebookReview, the policy is clear: there is absolutely no discussion or support allowed regarding running Mac OS X on any computer but a Macintosh. -
I wont discuss it anymore, but I will say that It swayed my opinion of Apple quite a bit, don't see why they have such a problem with it.
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I am sure the diehards would still buy from Apple, but if they could offer Leopard to everyone for $129.99 they would take a serious slice of MS market share.
Would it take a lot of $ and work, yeah it would, but in the end Apple would be raking in the $$ -
But again, as SAM said, that's what makes OS X so fast and reliable. It's specifically built to be optimized for the hardware apple offers, instead of being very scalable. -
I would never want apple to take to much from MS otherwise they could become the next MS. LOL. I like apple the way they are now.
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mattireland It used to be the iLand..
Yes, thanks, I was talking about the illegality of installing Mac on a PC. Thanks system_159 - that's just what I was wanting! and Lithus also - thanks!
Sorry for making myself unclear. I myself also needed more sleep!
Quoting legislation
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mattireland, Jan 12, 2008.