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RE: When is a mac not a Mac?

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Subject: RE: When is a mac not a Mac?
From: "Brian Franco" <briman31@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:15:12 -0700
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On 29-Aug-08, at 6:41 PM, Sam Rowlands wrote:

 Last week we released our latest product and for the most part it has 
 been a success.

 Although I am getting some weird errors on certain machines. In the 
 error report I capture information about the users computer. For these 
 really weird errors, the model returns as a Macintosh and the 
 processor returns as Intel Pentium.

 Today I got my 4th e-mail and the answer was right there in the OS 
 Version "Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 by OSX86.Türk team (9B18)"
 Certainly not a genuine Mac!

 So it would seem that Pystar are not alone in selling clones, 
 especially as all these customers are in Europe.

 I guess my question is, does anyone know how widespread this is, and 
 are we now facing the next unsanity crisis (especially since I heard 
 unsanity are closing down)?

Sounds like these guys are running a hacked OS X that runs on relatively
generic PC hardware.
Check out the term "hackintosh" and you'll find a few articles

I'd reply that on "unaltered copies of OS X this works" as that pretty much
relegates these reports to running on an unsupported configuration


Well ...as the Mac gains popularity it will be targeted to more piracy.
Just as M$ has been for years......
Former red hat now RHEL has legal clones so many free distro's for user's
to choose from


Honestly I don't see why any piracy of Mac nowadays would be a big shock...
The more market gain(share) the bigger the target ;-) 

 



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