On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:35:17 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>> They sell a comprehensive solution that is dependent on their >>>> hardware, just like Actiontec sells a router as a comprehensive >>>> functional device. > >>> No, actually, OS/X isn't dependent on Apple's hardware. It will run >>> happily on a Psystar box. > >> But not legitimately, I understand. > > That's under contention in an American court at the moment. Should it > be legitimate for a software manufacturer to dictate what sort of > hardware his software package may be run on? I don't think it should > be.
Isn't there a ROM chip which validates the hardware to the OS, else the OS won't _____ (?install?). Psystar reverse engineered that chip? -Thufir _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
