Intel Tiger in the Wild?

Engadget is reporting the appearance of the developer build of Tiger for Intel-based systems on P2P networks. Supposedly, some enterprising software pirates are already running the thieved code on their Dell laptops.

One could argue, however, that this is very akin to the actions of Robin Hood, or perhaps stealing Bibles to give them to unbelievers: the end result is that more Wintel users become enthralled with MacIntel and make the switch. Perhaps Apple leaked it to the P2P networks on purpose?

One could also argue that this is just a rumor, that piracy is flat out wrong, and that this early build would in all likelihood behave very badly on a Dell laptop due to a lack of appropriately ported Dell drivers for the hardware(working drivers would mean that the Mac developers have been porting the OS to work on all the popular Windows boxes out there, which is just crazy to think).

What do you think? Intel Tiger in the Wild: Fact or fiction? 

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