Why would I want to run tiger on a pc?
Well, perhaps you have the funds to just buy a mac as you put it, but
some folks don't.
Admittedly, it's not exactly an easy task to get tiger to work on non-
apple hardware, but assuming someone has the required equipment, as
long as they purchase a copy of tiger for themselves, I personally
see nothing wrong with running it on pc hardware. Yes, the copy you
run won't be the one you bought, but if the software is bought and
paid for, then where's the harm in using additional methods to get
that paid for software to work on hardware you already have.
While I know folks are doing this w/o having purchased a licensed
copy of tiger, and I do not support or agree with this practice, I've
always been firmly of the opinion that if you own a legitimate
license for a piece of software, then you should be entitled to run
that software on any machine you may have ownership of regardless of
what artificial restrictions have been placed on such running.
There's nothing wrong with honest folks running software on their own
machine provided they don't exceede the same authority they'd have if
they ran it on quote approved unquote hardware.
Unfortunately, it's the folks that ignore these guidelines, and
indeed flaunt such behavior that are the pirates and deserve fines
and prosecution, not those just trying to get real use out of their
existing machines.
Piracy is definitely wide spread, but not as bad as most software
companies would have you believe. I.E. Jaws allows for only a
limited number of installs. Well, if I use some software to allow me
to recover some of my installs (increase my install count) after
windows has trashed my hd, by definition that makes me a pirate,
because I stole an install according to fs. By my definition, and by
most common sense, this does not make me a pirate, I simply recovered
what I had in the first place, and windows being the wonderful os it
is, I see no reason why I should have to go back to fs everytime my
machine crashes unconditionally, requiring a format/reinstall, just
because of some silly key registration system that doesn't take into
account windows's inherent flaws.
I realize this is (slightly) different, but only slightly.
If I purchase a copy of tiger, I should be allowed to run it on *any*
hardware I may have, even if that hardware doesn't happen to have a
picture of an apple on it.
Now, of course, if I do such a thing, I'd not expect any support, nor
would I complain if it blew up and refused to work, that's the nature
of stretching the limits. And, as long as this is the general order
of things, I see no reason why I couldn't have my os put onto a pc
and run it that way.
There's a definitely devision between using what you have a rite to,
and taking liberties with something that doesn't belong to you, and
in the case of running a purchased copy of tiger on a non-apple hw
platform, I am strongly of the opinion that the line is not crossed.
