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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core I thought I was quite familiar and in good standing with the TRIPS Agreement. Could you indicate where in the agreement it is permitted by law? TRIPS is irrelevant. The law at dispute here is the DMCA an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by neutrino23 Specific to MWSF, I'd like to see them work out some sort of a virtual conference. For example, everyone could have an "on-line booth". You'd visit a special website and there you'd drop in on a streaming pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell You accuse him of spreading FUD. How does OS X not currently hold its own in the free market. It competes against an OS that holds 90% of the market. Is Apple an O/S or hardware company? You all keep changi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MaynardJames If you buy a Dell, and love Windows Vista and buy $2000 of software that runs on Vista, you're pretty much at this point from a legal? standpoint required to continue to buy Windows OS software if you want…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DavidW Apple is not purposely "bricking" other system with software. OSX, out of the box, just doesn't support other systems. If you want to hack your copy of OSX so that it works on your own system, you're are free t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DavidW But OSX does not work on any X86 system out of the box. True, you have to use it on a computer that has an EFI chip or use an EFI emulator. Quote: Originally Posted by DavidW That would be like you havi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Technically, you can't, just as I am technically be 'illegal' by installing OSx86 on my Wind. But if you have absolutely no knowledge or understand of what licensing is then I can not respond to anymore of yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism EFI over BIOS is malware? Seeing if an OS has the ability to support the HW it's being installed on is malware? No, I'm referring to the O/S updates that purposely break the "innovations" that the OSx86 an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Then that is certainly a change from their original option of having you ship your HDD back to them to reinstall OS X. If they have a solution that doesn't require them to alter the OS in any way shape or for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ljocampo I don't think Apple cared too much about what Psystar was doing until they started to crack and distribute their updates. Psystar had no legal right to do that even if the company was just helping to make it e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism No, they don't. They 'sell' you a retail version of OS X, but they 'install' a hacked copy of OS X that can only be had by illegally downloading and which has core aspects of the OS altered to run on non-Mac …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism How does your argument help out out Apple as a company in the future. If Psystar can get paid off by Apple after illegally selling their stolen IP, then what is to stop any one of us from starting their own P…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling Hmmm. Suppose I buy Coffeemaker A and Coffeemaker B and notice that they both use the same embedded processor. I prefer the software features of Coffeemaker A but I prefer the hardware features of Coffeemake…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I get see the relation. Dell has nothing to do with MS' Windows licensing. If MS sells software, if it get a sale on Macs then it's a sale, and it's a full price, not an OEM version, in many cases. MS did lim…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Matthew Yohe Well, Mike Bombich does work at Apple now, so maybe this is an offshoot of NetRestore. I thought the technology sounded familiar. I don't get how it's any different from booting from a cloned external d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cosmickd Does swapping out the hard drive screw up applecare? Yeah it does, but if you swap back in the original, they won't know. I had to do that with the memory I added when my screen died two weeks after I bough…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cosmickd Does anyone know if you can buy a 320 GB HD from toshiba for $75.00 and just install it yourself instead of spending $200.00 for it through the apple store? Yes you can, I just bought a 320 Gb drive for my …
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Thanks for a thoughtful, intelligent response. Seems the twatter crowd has invaded AppleInsider. The network the phone is on makes all the difference and AT&T is terrible! This phone, when released in the US, will be available on Verizon Wire…
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Well, I'm one of those that want a mid-range Mac tower, or better OS X that will run on any commodity PC hardware... However, I don't necessarily side with Psystar... I do think it could be a more complicated case than most here think, but it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac That ad is much better IMO. Actually its quite good. While people will say its stupid to respond to Apple in their ads they really don't have much choice IMO. Apple is ascending in popularity and influen…