So I get up, fire up the browser and go to gmail, and the first news link at the top is this:
Update: A Florida-based firm advertising cheap, Mac-compatible systems running on standardized hardware has created a swirl of controversy this week–and drawn an angry response from one of the principal hackers involved in developing the software involved.
Aside from the legal ramifications of selling “white-box” systems running Apple’s Mac OS X, questions have arisen over the exact nature of Psystar, the firm advertising the systems; and even whether it exists.
Yeah, let’s get that out of the way before we get to the drooling. This Mac clone company may be a scam. So maybe you’d better not order one until we know one way or another. As for the legal ramifications, Apple lifted BSD and didn’t pay a cent for it, and now, Apple and all of the AppleIdiots are giving Apple credit for their OS — which isn’t their OS, it’s BSD, and they don’t deserve any credit for it at all. So I have zero sympathy for anybody “stealing” Apple’s stolen OS. And by the way, the same is true for Apple’s pre-BSD OS and their click-the-icon idiot GUI, which they lifted from Xerox, and didn’t pay one cent for. Not. One. Cent. Apple’s OS has never been theirs. It’s always been somebody else’s, and they have never paid a dime for it.
God, I hate Apple.
Anyway, on to the slobbering:
Apple allowed a handful of companies to manufacture Mac clones in the mid-1990s, but Steve Jobs put an end to the practice when he resumed his chief executive duties in 1997.
There we go. And that’s exactly why Apple has only a tiny market, and will never have more than a tiny market. Steve Jobs is an idiot. But that’s not really the idiocy I was going to mention. This is:
If the Open Computer does in fact exist, Apple might not be too happy about it–but neither will the hackers who have developed the “OSx86″ software Psystar claims to use. Thus far, Apple has made no concerted effort to stamp out the OSx86 project, which consists of various patches allowing Mac OS X to run on commodity hardware, no doubt in part because it has been used only on a small scale and is relatively difficult to implement.
Psystar is proposing, however, to use OSx86-developed tools as the basis for its systems. On its Web site, the firm specifically mentions PC EFI V8, an emulator for the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) that lies between OSX and the Intel firmware.
Netkas, the programmer who led the PC EFI effort, retorted angrily to Psystar on his blog. “This is a violation of my authorship rights on PC EFI V8,” he wrote. The patch’s license forbids any “redistribution… for direct or indirect commercial purposes”, Netkas wrote.
Before I start, let’s get one thing out of the way. I have absolutely no problem with open source. None. But this is where open source jumps into the moron pool. In a nutshell, here’s what’s going on.
Open source developers wrote patches so Apple’s OS — which isn’t Apple’s OS, and has never been Apple’s OS — would run on x86 machines, that is, Intel boxes (PCs). It was an open source project, so the developers chose to produce these patches and chose not to make any money from their work.
So far, so good.
The idiocy sets in when these developers who choose to work for free have fits because somebody else uses their product to make money. Sorry, idiots, but them’s the breaks. You chose to write code for free. I’m sorry if Joe has more sense than you do, but you produced the code; he’s going to make some money. That’s what America is all about. If you don’t like it, don’t write code for free — or don’t release source code.
See, the reason these idiots get their panties in a wad is because they’re a bunch of bed-wetting socialists. They’re the morons who have idiotic posters like “INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREEEEEEEEE!!! in their bedrooms in their parents’ homes (because they don’t have jobs). They don’t think anybody should make money off anything. They think they should get a big paycheck for sitting on their lazy asses, drinking Red Bull, and doing nothing.
Can you tell I have no sympathy for these mouthbreathers?
Understand that if these developers were raising hell because their copyrights were violated and wanted money, I’d be behind them, one hundred percent. But they’re only trying to keep other people from making money, so they can jump right off the rock into the sewer where they belong.
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