It is illegal, and i do not advise you to do it... but there are torrent sites out there...
PS OS X has no drm, serials, genuine advantage crap. all pirated copies work fine. But, as a loving mac fan... I will tell you not to do it. Just fork over the 130 bucks and get a legal copy. Think about the programmers... what incentive do they have to write good stuff if they don't get paid. Please do not pirate.
I find it hilarious that most Apple users are happy to pay Apple for their products. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating piracy. It's just that Apple has you by the balls. It's not like Apple is a non-profit organization.
When people like a product enough to pay for it I wouldn't say that the developer has them "by the balls". If that where the case then a LOT of developers (and grocery, barbershops, book stores, etc.) have a LOT of people "by the balls"
Seriously though, pay for good software. Whether or not you like the distributor, there are still many honest, hardworking programmers behind every good program.
@Jimmy I have a family pack of Leopard installed on just three systems, where I am legally entitled to 5 systems running Leopard. Would it be wrong, in your opinion, for me to download a Kalway disk to put OS X on my PC too? I agree that everyone who wants to run a Hackintosh should eventually buy the disk, but for a noob, there is no point to plunking down $130 for an experiment that might not even succeed to run stably, and could be discarded after a few weeks.
@Peter if you have licenses left over by all means download a torrent of Kalyway or another iteration of the OSX86 project and use it like it was one of your 5 licenses. the point is that you give the programmers at apple the credit they deserve.
@ peter: If you payed for it, use it. nothing wrong with that. If you have 5 licenses, u are allowed to have osx on 5 computers. if you own OSX its fine to download it. Its more convenient sometimes. So have fun with those 2 extra licenses :)
Your actually not allowed to use any of those licences on not apple hardware, Its in the EULA. With that said, I say go for it you paid for it so its your software to install as you see fit, but thats just my humble opinion.
@Jimmy what incentive do programmers have? Think of the entire Linux community, they program and pioneer new software and developments1 Ubuntu! the best freeware you could stumble upon. these programmers incentive is to grab the rest of the world by the balls and offer something amazing for free. Ubuntu FTW homes. :)
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Hmm, might give it a try...although I do not plan to pay for it until I know it's worth it. Any cracked OS Xs around? :P
It is illegal, and i do not advise you to do it... but there are torrent sites out there...
PS
OS X has no drm, serials, genuine advantage crap. all pirated copies work fine. But, as a loving mac fan... I will tell you not to do it. Just fork over the 130 bucks and get a legal copy. Think about the programmers... what incentive do they have to write good stuff if they don't get paid. Please do not pirate.
DON'T STEAL SOFTWARE!!!!!!
I find it hilarious that most Apple users are happy to pay Apple for their products. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating piracy. It's just that Apple has you by the balls. It's not like Apple is a non-profit organization.
Demonoid, Mininova, The Pirate Bay?
All sites to help you in your quest.
Al of them are .com sites.
When people like a product enough to pay for it I wouldn't say that the developer has them "by the balls". If that where the case then a LOT of developers (and grocery, barbershops, book stores, etc.) have a LOT of people "by the balls"
Seriously though, pay for good software. Whether or not you like the distributor, there are still many honest, hardworking programmers behind every good program.
@Jimmy
I have a family pack of Leopard installed on just three systems, where I am legally entitled to 5 systems running Leopard. Would it be wrong, in your opinion, for me to download a Kalway disk to put OS X on my PC too? I agree that everyone who wants to run a Hackintosh should eventually buy the disk, but for a noob, there is no point to plunking down $130 for an experiment that might not even succeed to run stably, and could be discarded after a few weeks.
isn't mininova a ".org", FWIW?
@Peter
if you have licenses left over by all means download a torrent of Kalyway or another iteration of the OSX86 project and use it like it was one of your 5 licenses. the point is that you give the programmers at apple the credit they deserve.
@ peter: If you payed for it, use it. nothing wrong with that. If you have 5 licenses, u are allowed to have osx on 5 computers. if you own OSX its fine to download it. Its more convenient sometimes. So have fun with those 2 extra licenses :)
Your actually not allowed to use any of those licences on not apple hardware, Its in the EULA. With that said, I say go for it you paid for it so its your software to install as you see fit, but thats just my humble opinion.
OSX has no DRM because Mac sales pay for its development.
Just because the dongle can install it doesn't mean you have to pirate it you know.
@Jimmy
what incentive do programmers have?
Think of the entire Linux community, they program and pioneer new software and developments1 Ubuntu! the best freeware you could stumble upon.
these programmers incentive is to grab the rest of the world by the balls and offer something amazing for free.
Ubuntu FTW homes.
:)