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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: Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:50:11 -0400
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On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Terry Ford wrote:


On Aug 30, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Markus Winter wrote:

I'd suggest that you read the license. You'll discover that it
doesn't give you a new license, it only upgrades the license you
already have.

Perhaps you should rephrase your answer to "You cannot LEGALLY
install Leopard on any machine other than an Apple product"

Perhaps it should be rephrased to "you can't do it without breaking the software license terms. Whether the software license terms are legal is
undecided but precedense (at least in Europe) suggests it is not"

But, during the install, you must accept these terms in order to continue. Doesn't that constitute a Legal agreement with Apple? Whether or not the EU decides these are binding in Europe or that this forced agreement itself is Legal in those countries does not release one from the contract one agrees to on installation. This is in Contract Law that obviously varies by jurisdiction.

I am not a contract lawyer, of course, so I really am stepping out of my territory. :)


And so you should have attended my wife's Real World lectures on contracts and licenses. Lession #1: contracts and licenses are not the same thing :)

Charles Yeomans

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