[X4U] OS X On Generic PC Hardware

[T.L. Miller]

On 11/17/07, at 8:00 AM, David Ledger dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk said:

>At present we don't even have a real licence system. With Windows you 
>get a hologram backed document with a serial number. With OSX you 
>don't necessarily get anything. I bought a Mac mini just after 
>Leopard came out, plus a family pack of Leopard. (Five I can use at 
>home and on my PowerBook, plus one on my daughter's mini should she 
>want it at her house). The upgrade for the mini contains nothing to 
>say I have a Leopard license. All I have is an invoice. Havn't 
>examined the family pack yet. Just bought it because I know I will 
>need it and I was in the shop. I'm not aware of having a serial 
>number for any Mac OS.

Couldn't Apple, as it updates the OS every few months, include code that
would thwart whatever hacks were out their -- requiring the hackers to
have to go back to the drawing board?


Tom Miller
..................................................
"The only time we see the middle of the road is as  
we run from side to side." R.O.Clark 
...................................................