The lead to the patch came from someone on the MacDV list who I am trying to contact to find out who he got it from and so on. I don't understand the nature of your worry. But I know this patch works. I will report back as as soon as I can learn the legacy of its origin from the guy who posted it. k On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Eagle wrote: > Kunga, > > No OWC patch? No problem. But if I'm going to run code on my system, > I very much care where it came from and what it does. Especially if > I'm replacing Apple's code. The aforementioned patch replaces Apple's > iDVD *executable* (that's what Foo.app/Contents/MacOS/Foo is - the > main application binary) with one of unknown origin. For all I know > it has code to "rm -rf ~" ... You better believe I care where code > comes from! > > Eagle > > On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 14:00 US/Eastern, Thubten Kunga wrote: >> Dear Eagle, >> Please stop obsessing on the OWC patch. It broke with Jaguar. It is >> history and will not return except maybe in a new set of code. That >> is not the issue here. You CAN install iDVD 3 without a SuperDrive on >> any G4 Mac— even G3 Macs (but it won't run). After you install it, >> you put this patch in the read me file described folder to replace >> Apple's and iDVD 3 works except for the burn. Who the hell cares >> where it came from. It works. That's all that matters.