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by lightdot 1970 days ago
> The snap is not running macOS on mac hardware. Even if you run it on a mac laptop, it's using virtualized qemu hardware.

Right. "Virtualized hardware", as in, you know, software. In other words, QEMU is software that runs on actual nonvirtualized hardware, in this laptop's example produced by Apple.

If you think differently, I invite you to virtualize a sailboat and than sail with it out to sea.

I suspect that somewhere along the way, the difference between virtaulized sailboats and actual sailboats will become more readily apparent... :)

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You're reading of my comment is not charitable at all. I'm making the distinction specifically because of the DMCA's anti-circumvention measures, which specifically apply to circumventing digital copyright. Obviously any analogy to a sailboat is unrelated to the DMCA and unrelated to my comment.

I do agree that specific sentence of mine is poorly worded, but the point that it still requires that circumvention stands regardless of the poor wording.

I linked to the bit of the snap that I believe may constitute circumvention under the DMCA. I welcome you to actually respond to what I meant in my comment, and not with some strawman of an intentionally poor interpretation of it.