04-15-2009, 11:39 PM
bik wrote:
For Apple, the profit is in the hardware. The OS is just the draw. If you are not going to buy the Apple hardware, and you ARE going to put the OS on the non-Apple hardware, just do it. No real harm to Apple.
All the people who say "at least pay for the OS" are just fooling themselves and rationalizing. Paid for or not, putting OS X on Dell hardware is against the EULA.
Apple still makes a profit on software, just not as high of a margin. If you use Apple's software without paying, you have damaged Apple in an actionable manner; the same may not necessarily be said of violating the EULA, an act that does not equate to violating a legal statute.