February 17th, 2006
Apple to OS X Pirates: Don’t Risk Your Karma
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Don’t do it! Don’t hack OS X to pirate it! You’re risking your karma!
At least, that’s what Apple says. Apple confirmed on Wednesday that it has embedded poetry in places in the OS that presumably would need to be accessed to hack it, which warns against piracy.
The poem reads:
“Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he’d do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don’t steal Mac OS! Really, that’s way uncool. (C) Apple Computer Inc.”
We Say: Legal threats don’t seem to work, so why not? 
Mike Potter says:
It’s pretty irrelevant what apple says and does. They don’t sell anything important (copies of other peoples pcs,copies of others os and some musical devices that frankly owe their popularity to marketting not real benfits). All that this article does is provide them with free market exposure and that really is bad karma.
February 17th, 2006 at 8:47 am
andcraig says:
Uhh..Mr Potter…your statement’s don’t make sense.
I’m pretty sure OSX isn’t a copy of anything (possibly NEXT, which gasp..was bought by apple…or BSD..which is open sourced, and heavily, heavily altered to the form it is in Darwin and OSX)
And yeah, lots of other companies sell powerbooks, ibooks, imacs, powermacs, all those just running windows. I see your reasoning in apple only selling copies of other computers. Only you know..they don’t.
Yeah, the iPod isn’t as full featured as other music players, but from all the ones i’ve used, i find it the easiest. Horsepower and feature’s don’t always win, sometimes usability and marketing matter.
And i’d argue its highly relevant what apple says and does. Since Jobs came back to the company they’ve had remarkable influence on both culture and technology, despite not having huge marketshare. Anyone who can manage to pull that off i’d consider to be well worth listening to.
February 17th, 2006 at 9:08 am
g says:
Mac on Intel is great
To hackers it’s served on a plate
So Mac wrote an ode
Please stay out of our code
Xerox, I’m sure, can relate
March 6th, 2006 at 10:36 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Rob says:
Well, the legal threats always tend to come across as irritating & insulting at best, it’s not like you got a copy to read and sign before buying and taking it home.
Now for once, while they’re still reminding you that you bought a copy of the media and the right to use it on one machine it is a polite reminder instead of one of those baseless irksome little things that at worst reminds one of why no one (or most people) dislike lawyers. (Not that I actually believe in Karma, but it does have a friendly-feel good-natured sort of appeal to it.)
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:22 pm
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August 8th, 2008 at 1:08 am