[ale] OT: mac osx copy

[Jeff Hubbs]

Gentoo Linux is officially supported on nine different CPU 
architectures, PPC and PPC64 among them. At A Previous Employer (tm) I 
had Gentoo on x86_64, Via C3 x86-alike (Wyse thin client), and SPARC at 
the same time, all happily running modern versions of everything.

On 9/21/17 10:42 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ah. The joy's of closed source, welcome to f*$%ing software jail, apple.
>
> 'You don't' is the short answer. The license for the old OS is once 
> per machine, 2 per family, NON-TRANSFERABLE.
>
> According to an analysis of the license terms (that I now can't find 
> on the interwebs) that hardware can be sold or given away but the 
> software license is no longer valid. The new owner is required to 
> purchase a license even if the box came with working OS.
>
> That screws donated hardware to non-profits.
>
> Apple want's people to buy new stuff at least every 2 years so the new 
> OS is available free for new hardware (with Apple account and built in 
> user tracking - of course it's only used to improve products). The 
> non-supported versions of OSX are purged from the public space (and 
> legals sent to takedown unauthorized download locations as fast as 
> they pop up.). Old hardware is not cool enough for the turtleneck crowd.
>
> Run Linux on the old hardware. Debian still has a ppc port. Check here 
> for details:
>
> https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 10:21 -0400, leam hall wrote:
>> Related question as the local Goodwill store sometimes has Macs and I 
>> want to stay legal. If I get an old mac where can I get a legal, if 
>> old, OS copy?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Leam
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> I have a Mac OS X server disk :-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 21:54 +0800, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>> Recently purchased old mac mini power. I'm just asking if someone 
>>>> got copy of old osx.
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