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dlcarriertoday at 6:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

I worked at a place that tested software releases on a VM of every supported operating system, including OS X. We didn't have any Apple hardware, because no one wanted to deal with that, but someone had brought in the chassis of an old Apple computer and the host computer was inside it. We didn't run it by any lawyers or anything, but as far as we could tell, running OS X inside a computer that had all of its guts replaced was entirely within the license requirements.


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pbhjpbhjtoday at 8:00 PM

These sort of letter-of-the-law arguments don't tend to do well in court in my very limited experience (UK). But I love the essence of it!

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bryogenictoday at 7:27 PM

The Mac of Theseus

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teaearlgraycoldtoday at 8:00 PM

I would love to hear more about the exact license wording that allows this.

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