How to roll your own Mac for under $240

Re:How to roll your own Mac for under $240 by dcurtis on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @06:01PM (#416003)

You are misinformed. See this fantastic diagram: http://i33.tinypic.com/2yor21y.png

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Re:How to roll your own Mac for under $240 by jackowayed on Thursday January 01, 2009 @03:44AM (#416337)

Yeah, but with software, there really is no "original" to steal. They can make new copies and ship them to the store for like $0.50 tops.

The real value of software is the information, the compiled code that makes it do something valuable. You're not paying your share towards development costs that make that happen. So you're robbing the company of the money you would pay for the software.

With software, the idea of theft only being taking the physical product is stupid because the physical aspect is practically worthless. Some software isn't even distributed through physical means at all.

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Re:How to roll your own Mac for under $240 by dmix on Thursday January 01, 2009 @05:28AM (#416366)

I don't think he was questioning the value, he was commenting on the use of the word "stealing". Copyright infringement is the better phrase for it.

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Re:How to roll your own Mac for under $240 by Herring on Thursday January 01, 2009 @05:41AM (#416370)

Not if you want to tar & feather someone, it's not. Sometimes communication is the least important function of language.

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