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Originally Posted by BWinmill
It's not criminal, to be sure. Chances are that they would be on very shaky grounds when it comes to discussing hackintoshes, which is why they cannot shut down sites that don't promote piracy. The question is: do they have the right to sue? That depends upon the legality of particular clauses in the EULA.
I would suggest that the lack of lawsuits does not make the clauses legally enforceable or non-enforcable. They simply have not been tested. Maybe they haven't been tested because Apple doesn't want to test them, but that doesn't automatically make it legal to violate the EULA.
(For what it's worth, I don't think that manufacturers/developers should have the right to dictate the use of consumer goods. On the other hand, the law and I don't always agree.)
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They've never really made much of an attempt to do things to prevent people from installing it. I guess they feel that if people like the OS, they'll get actual mac hardware the next time, plus are more likely to buy iPhones, iPads, etc.
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Originally Posted by heySkippy
Apple isn't going to bother anyone for installing OS X on their own PC.
Try making a business selling them and all bets are off.
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That's because it is direct competition, making money off their work. Apple profits off the hardware, not the software.
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Originally Posted by Matth79
Getting back to Safari, in windows, it's "the other webkit based browser", and with everyone either pushing IE9, Firefox or Chrome, I suspect the only people that care about Safari/Win are those who want consistency with use of Safari/OSX.
Just wish there was something you could call a "reference" Webkit browser - Safari may have been closer to that than Chrome is.
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One of the reasons for that is Apple for the longest time was one of the largest forces behind Webkit. It started as the library for a really unknown linux browser (KHTML, the basis for KDE's Konqueror browser). Apple originally forked Webkit from KHTML back in 2001, because it was small, code was extremely clean (unlike Mozilla's gecko renderer), and was designed to be standards compliant (a huge thing to the open source crowd). Now other companies are working on it, but in the beginning, it was largely Apple.