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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by zcam on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:13PM (#6594608)
It's only "free" for Snow Leopard owners, which means not free at all, on the other hand this answers the support question.
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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by jfb on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:41PM (#6595191)
It's free for anyone with supported hardware, by the commonly accepted definition of "free".
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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by Tehnix on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:41AM (#6597440)
Stab in the dark, but, I guess it's because it requires the App Store to get it, which, AFAIK, first became available in 10.6.6, meaning, Snow Leopard is the farthest back you go.

If you get someone to DL it for you and burn it to disk/USB drive, you can probably also install it on Macs with older versions, since you'll just boot up in it..

So, it is free for everyone, but, only distributed easily to Snow Leopard and thereafter users.

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