carac86 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 While there might be some people (too) quick to point that Apple is not OK with people installing OSX on non-apple machines that has very little legal weight - and after launching a tool to patch a competing product (which also has a mention in the license that it should not be patched) I would dare saying that the legal position of Apple is very bad! Extra note - if Apple wanted to do it 100% right they could have legally licensed XP and sell/bundle it to their own computers - the BootCamp solution is more like "we will sell you this computer and give away this tool so you can install a pirated (or not, but that's not our problem) XP" ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14156-doesnt-apple-bootcamp-mean-that-maxxus-and-everybody-else-are-now-legally-covered/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
declan Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 MS sell windows, they don't specify what it has to be install on, but Apple as of yet don't sell an intel version of os x, so no one legally is covered. If someone sells a computer without software on it, they aren't saying go install illegal software, Apple is just giving there users the option to run XP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14156-doesnt-apple-bootcamp-mean-that-maxxus-and-everybody-else-are-now-legally-covered/#findComment-90115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Well, this is a good question, and I think that if Apple was ever taken to court on the issue, the court would say that Apple has no right to lock their OS to their own hardware. There have been a few instances of things like this in the past. But it would be hard for them to make the case that they don't want OS X installs elsewhere since they allow for the (quasi-supported) use of another OS on their machines. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14156-doesnt-apple-bootcamp-mean-that-maxxus-and-everybody-else-are-now-legally-covered/#findComment-90121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Elliott Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 You can buy a PC with linux installed, you can build your own from scratch or buy a prebuilt one with no OS installed. All these can have windows installed on them (from whatever source your conscience or abilities allow), just because most big name box makers (and no name for that matter) preinstall windows it doesn't follow that Microsoft had anything to do with it other than selling them the rights to do this. The bootcamp code as far as I'm aware does not patch XP in any way, at least no more so than any other hardware manufacturer does by providing a driver for their hardware. Its a two part solution, the MAC firmware gets altered to allow XP to install, and the second part is just a bunch of drivers for the MAC hardware under XP. OSX is licensed for use on Apple hardware only, not like the microsoft license which tends to be for one computer at any one time (or in the case of an OEM license, for the PC that it came installed on). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14156-doesnt-apple-bootcamp-mean-that-maxxus-and-everybody-else-are-now-legally-covered/#findComment-90253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeCornutier Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 There's something I really don't get about Apple's strategy; intel macs will now legally run XP (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/apr/05bootcamp.html) but still OSX on pc is illegal. Why does Apple open to windows, virtually making it even more dominant os? Won't this strategy reduce apple to just a hardware company such as acer, toshiba, dell and so on? An intel mac running XP only has a nicer box and nothing else, compared to a pc. XP conquers macs and OSX becomes not essential to run a mac... this sounds very strange. if Vista keeps up to its promises it will be the end for OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14156-doesnt-apple-bootcamp-mean-that-maxxus-and-everybody-else-are-now-legally-covered/#findComment-90553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tip Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 @carac86 Your thougths seem very simple minded. Particularly because you did not read the news as you should do before comparing apples and eggs. Apple did not patch anything of Windows. Apple just changed the firmware of its Intel Macs to support Windows. Thats all. Every PC builder ist allowed to do something to support OSX on a "standard" PC but not patch OSX to not beeing protected by copy protecting shemes like TPM etc. or just copy copyrighted code or techniques. So whats your problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14156-doesnt-apple-bootcamp-mean-that-maxxus-and-everybody-else-are-now-legally-covered/#findComment-90599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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