Dustin KC9MEL On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Matt Burnett wrote:
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a hackintosh by the descriptions of support requests they are submitting? If not are you sure your code checks return values and is designed to fail gracefully?On Jul 30, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Suter wrote:On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Michael Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, John Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clevermessages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.I really strongly advise against this. Your code will have bugs, simply because it is code. It is quite likely that one of these bugs will one day prevent a legitimate user who owns a real, legitimate Macintosh from using your software.At that point, I would argue, the harm to that one user far outweighsany minor, undetectable gain you could possibly get from such a scheme.One issue that we have is that we get a lot of support for our products from people who are running our software on Hackintosh's and they aren't usually up front about that fact. They end up wasting our time when it turns out the problem they've got is because they're running on a Hackintosh. So therewould be some benefit if we could detect when we're running from aHackintosh. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, there is no futureproof way of doing that at the moment (that I know of). -- Chris _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/matt.w.burnett%40gmail.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mac_vieuxnez %40mac.comThis email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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