i beg to differ my bondi-blue imac came with an orange os 8.1 CD and
an orange restore CD
Ed
On Dec 29, 2010, at 9:37 PM, tortoise wrote:
There was never an iMac that ran 8.1, the first iMacs ran 8.5
But in most places, if it is an original real Apple CD, the holder of
the license = the holder of the CD. The guy who sells it or gives it
away is responsible for not using that license anymore (for instance
if they have upgraded their iMac to os9)
On Dec 29, 5:52 am, Edward Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
I'll solve this discussion right now I'm sending him an 8.1 cd from
the iMac I'm giving him it's his choice to come pick up the machine
or not so :P
Ed
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Charlie Lowndes
<[email protected]> wrote:
You can use a copy of whatever originally came with the machine.
In the case of a PowerBook 190 that would be OS 7.5.2 which is
freely available from Apple.
Charlie
On 29 Dec 2010, at 13:10, Wesley Furr wrote:
How does licensing work in the Mac world? I'm more a PC guy (who
used Apple
II and Mac-LC era machines back in school days), so my
perspective for
comparison comes from there... In the PC world (at least since
the later
Windows 95 days), the PC manufacturer put a label on the PC when
it was
built and that is the license for the machine, as well as the ID
key to
install it with. So if you have a PC with a Windows 2000 label,
you're
legal to grab a Windows 2000 CD and install it back on the system.
If you get an old Mac with a dead hard drive and no
documentation, how do
you know what version of the Mac OS you are legal to use on it?
I'm
assuming all Macs shipped with an OS license of some sort? In
which case
Joel might be legal to use a copy given to him?
Not trying to argue here, just trying to understand how this all
works...
Thanks,
Wesley
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Anyone who makes a copy for Joel will be violating copyright
laws.
Mac O/S 8.1 is still available for sale.
Willi
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