News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”. Parent comment

Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by viraptor on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:25AM (#25761144)
You can, but it's illegal. You're only allowed to virtualise MacOS on MacOS host. You also have to obtain the system which as far as I can tell you can't buy anymore - you can only upgrade to.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by SSLy on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:26AM (#25761154)
Just because something is unauthorized or breaks EULA (mostly void here in EU anyway) doesn't mean it's illegal.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by viraptor on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:37AM (#25761240)
Even if you don't expect EULA to be enforced (will you pay for my lawyers/fine if it is?), you still need a copy of the system which you can't buy directly. You're left with unauthorised copies if you don't have any MacOS hardware and the same question - would you cover my legal costs?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by jaywalk on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:08AM (#25762856)
You can download MacOS directly from Apple for free.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by viraptor on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:09PM (#25767983)
How do you legally download Big Sur without having an existing Mac machine? I thought that option was gone for some time now. A quick search doesn't bring up good solutions.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by gruez on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:50PM (#25765529)
On the flip side, why would it be legal? It's looks like a pretty cut case of copyright infringement. It's their software, you're not authorized to use it, but you're using it anyways.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by realusername on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:42AM (#25761282)
First it's illegal but secondly the performance is atrocious anyways (at least last time I've tried) so it won't even help you that much.
[ Parent | on HN ]