Legality of MOL on non-Apple HW

[strobe anarkhos]

At 12:51 PM +0200 4/19/02, samuel@ibrium.se wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:18:47PM -0700, strobe anarkhos wrote:
>> Is it legal to run MacOS on non-Apple licensed hardware?
>>
>> This has not been an issue in the past since other than
>> a handful of BeBoxen all PowerPC-based PCs have been
>> licensed to run MacOS by Apple.
>
>This is a difficult question. Apple's "shrink wrap" Software
>License accompanying MacOS states (I think) that the
>computer must be Apple branded or Apple licensed. The legal
>status of this kind of agreements seem to be in doubt though.
>Which country you live in might be a factor here.

Hrm, that sounds pretty clear to me. Where's the doubt?

> > However various non-Apple PowerPC PCs will soon be in the
>> market...
>
>Well, I'd say that this remains to be seen :-).
>

Well bplan has announced the Pegasos WILL go on sale June 1st. Everybody seems very confident about this and I haven't read any doubt about the schedule. I'm confident it'll happen.