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Old 23rd August 2008
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Originally Posted by ninjatux View Post
using it on a non-Mac breaks the EULA
I never care about ANY EULA.

Also there was similar case in history, when IBM wanted DOS to be used only on their hardware in EULA, and they fail at the court and have to allow use of it on ANY computer.

Similar case has recently started between Psystar and Mac OS X.

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Originally Posted by ninjatux View Post
it's impractical for most people to try running Mac OS X on their systems because its hardware support is quite poor, but that doesn't matter, since Macs are a closed platform. Mac OS X does not have to support every piece of hardware out there.
Apple hardware is nothing more then x86 hardware (Intel/AMD/nVidia) with EFI chip instead of BIOS. Everything else is the same, well maybe keyboard backlight is true Apple hardware.

About drivers, you forgot that Mac OS X uses Darwin kernel and userspace, which is Open Source, so you can write a module to support anything you want (and they actually do that).
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