Review: 'EFI-X Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Sep 2008 09:15 UTC, submitted by Andrew Youll
Mac OS X If you want to run Mac OS X on a standard, non-Apple-labelled x86 box, you have various options. You can go all creative and build and install one yourself, and then be weary when installing updates from Apple. You can also buy a Mac clone from PsyStar, and then be weary of Apple's crack team of lawyers. A third option has just become available: EFI-X.
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RE[3]: Won't fit in my mind.
by silix on Wed 17th Sep 2008 15:10 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Won't fit in my mind."
silix
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You aren't buying the copyright to a car either. So, this point is moot.

i perfectly know that you are not buying the copyright to a car, but actually a car doesn't come "with string attached" - there's no eula, and no need to distinguish between the right to use a product and the right to set conditions for the usage of the product (which is something that, in the case of SW, only the copyright owner can legitly do)

I have no idea where you live but here in Finland if it were true that you were indeed subscribing to a service (buying the right to use the software, instead of buying a product) you'd have to sign a contract.

Italy, and i've seen the fact that clicking on "I agree" is equivalent to signing a contract with the SW maker, stressed and remarked often times where i work

It was a few years ago but there was a court case which made the law very clear: the customer had bought a copy of some cad-like software and sold it then a year later to someone else. The EULA however said that you aren't allowed to sell it and the company behind the software took it to the court. The court ruled however that the customer had bought a product, not a service, and was in no liability to the company and could do as he wishes his own copy.

this is only logical, imho
in a contract between two parts, either one can at some point pass on someone else his part of the agreement, "discarding" obligations AND benefits altogether
if there are legal provisions for this, i think not even the conditions set in the EULA by the SW maker, can overcome the right of a licensee to stop using the product, alienating it and letting someone else be the regular licensee of that copy (as long as the new one uses the program as it is intended to be, that is)

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