[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:56:36AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> For that matter a good number of the pirate images come from Apple  
> employees and partners.
> 
> The torrent sites are full of them.

Anyone remember the 10.1 upgrade disk fiasco? 10.0 CD's (it fit on one
CD at the time) cost (I think) $129. When 10.1 came out Apple sold
10.1 CD's for the same price.

To make things easier for customers and to foster the adoption of 10.1,
Apple sold 10.1 upgrade CD's for $20. These contained everything you
needed to install 10.1 from scratch, with an extra program the checked
to make sure you actually had 10.0 installed before it would install.

The idea was that since you already had a license for OSX, there was
no need to buy another. The $20 was the cost of producing the CD and
selling it in the retail channel.

Within days postings were flying around the Internet on how to burn a
modified CD that would install without a prior OSX system being present.

For $20 and a blank CD, you could make all the OSX install CD's you wanted.



Geoff.

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