[OT] The Stupid Apple Flamewar Strikes Back!

[Ben Scott]

  Short version: Apple builds DRM (Digital Restrictions Management)
into MacOS-for-x86 to prevent it from running on non-Apple hardware. 
DRM gets cracked.  Apple fan forum sites links to info on crack.  Just
*links*, mind you.  In response, Apple's fires DMCA missles at the
forums in question.

  References:

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021701911.html
* http://portablevideo.engadget.com/2006/02/19/the-non-return-of-osx86-project/
* http://www.anti-dmca.org/
* http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg11529.html

  Further evidence that Apple is not the lovable, cool, geek-friendly
company so many seem to want it to be.  (Note Well: This says nothing
about any *other* company.)

  I stick with a computer that, when I buy it, I actually own it,
thank-you-very-much.

-- Ben "Launching incendiary missles" Scott