Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by avree on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:19PM
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Several machines are capable of running macOS. http://www.osx86project.org is a project focused on doing exactly this. However, these machines do not use SMC chips. They emulate the SMC.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by dmitrygr on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:36PM
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By including the copyrighted phrase in the emulating kext, and thus violating copyright law. Yes.
Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by Fnoord on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:02PM
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That phrase is not copyright infringement. Apple lost that case in a court of law.
Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by Rjevski on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:09AM
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Link to the case? if this hack actually doesn't work as far as law is concerned then I'm surprised it's still there.
Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by dmitrygr on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:41PM
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This is not a relevant case at all. OSK0 and OSK1 keys were never a secret. But they are a literary work more or less so still copyrightable.
Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by Fnoord on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:48PM
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Apple argued it is a trade secret; the judge disagreed with them on that one.
So this poem here:
Your karma check for today: There once was 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.
Is not a trade secret.