Timeline for Revisit the Hackintosh policy
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
14 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2017 at 18:41 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @Dmitry, again those were paid for boxes, not freely available downloads from the publisher. I get what you are repeating, I simply do not agree on the "they are exactly the same" part. We could go on forever, but repetition doesn't necessarily make one change their mind. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @AndreaLazzarotto the reason why there's no user-specific keys is that anyone possessing the Mac hardware is a legitimate user. The protection mechanism Apple has used may be weak, but that doesn't make breaking it any more legal. Old copy-protected applications sometimes asked you to enter the first word from page 10 of the manual: that's not user-specific either, but it's a copy protection nevetheless. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:14 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @Dmitry, regarding the how part... AFAIK the only check it does is two strings in the EFI firmware. Such values are configured via any VM software. There are no license keys tied to a user and Apple doesn't sell licenses with such keys. Would a OS with an EULA that says you must have a Intel GPU be "cracked" if you put it in a VM with that value, while your host really has a Nvidia card? | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 8:12 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @AndreaLazzarotto My understanding is that OS X will refuse to run on a non-Mac hardware unless you make it believe it's a genuine Mac. How is that different from a keygen simulating a HASP key? | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 22:24 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @Dmitry you are talking about stuff that is not and never has been distributed as a free download. Also, nobody was talking about "cracking" or using keygens. Now, of course if you get a copy from torrents or other random places it is not the same as getting it from the legitimate source. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 10:17 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @AndreaLazzarotto Older versions of Windows (and old software in general) cannot be bought anymore either. It's still illegal to crack those. | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 0:52 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @JourneymanGeek Windows is paid and requires a serial number, macOS cannot be bought (only downloaded for free from the MAS) and doesn't have any activation step. I agree that it might look similar but it's a bit different. I don't mind the policy here since I use a real Mac, but I still think there are differences. | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 23:51 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I could download and run a crack on a legitimate copy of Windows. Only difference is with apple, you run a hacked bootloader and kernel extensions to lie to your system rather than a piece of software to lie to the os that it's activated | |
| Feb 4, 2017 at 20:07 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | "its no different from running windows with an activation crack" That's definitely not the same as an activation crack if the copy is obtained legitimately, e.g. from Apple and not via torrents. You could argue it's similar, but "no different" is quite strong. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 22:23 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | I'm just going to poke my head in here to say I support this position. I'm not opposed to questions which may incidentally be used in the breaking of DRM or piracy of software. We have plenty of questions e.g. about doing things with mp4 files which could be used for movie piracy, but that isn't the point of the question. As allquixotic alludes to, questions that are about Hackintoshes are different from questions about OS X which may happen to be running on non-Apple hardware. I see little room for Hackintosh-specific questions which don't involve knowingly supporting EULA violation. | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 0:56 | history | edited | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 117 characters in body
|
| Jan 27, 2017 at 22:50 | history | edited | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 46 characters in body
|
| Jan 27, 2017 at 22:24 | history | edited | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 244 characters in body
|
| Jan 27, 2017 at 22:18 | history | answered | Journeyman GeekMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |