[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Mark]

On 29 Jul 2008, at 19:11, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

>> Apple charges money for OS X. They make a decent overhead on it as
>> it's about a dollars worth of CD, manual and sleeve tops and a few
>> dollars distribution per unit to ship them about the place as
>> palletized shipments, and/or boxes of units.
>
> ...which means it should be trivial for them to offer a cheap update  
> for current owners.

Right, so it is! No wait, did you read the rest of my message?

I quote:

>> Any mechanism for 'downloading' a copy of OS X would be great, I'd  
>> use
>> it and tell everyone else to use it. The problem is how do you  
>> protect
>> such a system from abuse when the software has no license codes or
>> individual authorization? It's very logistically difficult, when you
>> begin to think about it.

It's not a trivial matter, it's a very tricky one. How do you  
legitimately claim an updated Image? I'd love to see your trivial  
idea...


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