Hackintosh

[Mark Waddingham]

Whilst that may be true - a significant part of LiveCode's business comes from the US... As does our support for Apple devices.

Of course, Apple probably don't care (why would they? Hackintoshes are not Macs). However, Apple did think it reasonable to outlaw anything other than Obj-C and JS (through the WebView) apps on iOS for a while. So let's not presume we can 'read' intent of such 'powerful' entities.

As I said there are other forums for discussing hackintosh creation - it is definitely off topic for this forum; so beyond a few links of elsewhere to look (which our helpful users have already supplied) I think this discussion has probably done all it needs to, hasn't it?

At the end of the day, unless you believe in anarchy (which you might, I have no issue with that - particularly if you can explain to me how that works in practice ;)), some observance of rules is required - and there is a difference between discussing the rules (e.g. the meta level) which can be most enlightening; and the discussing of how to break them (which often gets quite boring in any specific case after a while - especially as plenty of other people have discussed them at length and in detail elsewhere) ;)

Caution is sometimes the greatest approach anyone can take, if you actually want to effect change.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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> On 2 Aug 2017, at 22:07, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Apple's EULA may not actually be legal or legally enforcable in a large number of territories
> where this Use-List is read.
> 
> Just seen Tim Cook "sucking the kneecaps" of China's one-party state's leaders and blethering anent "adhering to the law" re VPNs.
> Nothing makes me despise anyone more than trying to justify adherence to laws of a totalitarian state.
> 
> Sometimes the law is an ass; as has been demonstrated by sensible lawyers time out of mind.
> 
> This kind of reaction makes me want to scream "Richard Stallman" in a very trenchant tones.
> 
> I also don't see how discussing how one might go about something has to be seen as a demonstration of an intention
> to carry out those actions . . .
> 
> . . . but then I don't live in a paranoid police state (Bulgaria had a patch of that and gave it up, just as some, previously open, states
> started on an opposite journey).
> 
> Of course in "parts west" they don't even need the full apparatus of a police-state any more as they have, through political
> correctness  effectively erected what Mao Zedong ( a well-known advocate of democracy) termed "a dictatorship of the
> proletariat" where the people police themselves.
> 
> Anyway we don't need to worry about that when we have our own folk attempting to impose censorship nearer to home.
> 
> I have come up against this attitude in several places recently, the idea that a place is "safe and friendly" only when we are not allowed to
> express certain opinions.
> 
> That is the beginning of the end of proper, robust discussion and healthy creativity.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
>> On 8/2/17 6:56 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>> We have a great community, having earned a reputation for providing a safe, friendly environment for learning LiveCode.
>> 
>> With that in mind, please remember that Apple's EULA for macOS requires that it be run only on "Apple-branded computers".
>> 
>> Discussions of using VMs on Mac hosts is great, useful for testing our apps on multiple OS versions.
>> 
>> But we probably don't want to have discussions of violating Apple's copyright as part of this community's permanent public archive.
>> 
>> There are other venues where such discussion can take place.  Here in this official LiveCode support venue, it may be better to follow the guidelines used for the Forums, in which we avoid discussions which may be construed as encouraging illegal activity.
>> 
>> Forum Guidelines
>> <http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18885>
>> 
>> -- 
>> Richard Gaskin
>> LiveCode Community Liaison
>> richard at livecode.org
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