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by easton 1718 days ago
I think that the illegal (ish) part comes from Apple making macOS free if you're installing it on Apple hardware. They don't publicly license it for use on non-Apple hardware, although, I would guess that VMWare if not others has a license to run it on random x64 servers to test ESXi with because setting up a different testing environment of Mac Minis to test every change to their hypervisor on instead of using their normal testing infrastructure would be dumb.

(or they just do it anyway and don't tell Tim.)

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> I think that the illegal (ish) part comes from Apple making macOS free if you're installing it on Apple hardware.

I don't think it's true since the phrase in question was present also in Mac OS X when we had to purchase each version. Apart from that, this part of the license is not valid in several European countries. When you think of it, it's quite reasonable: how could anyone dictate how you are using something you purchased? It makes no any sense.

> ...this part of the license is not valid in several European countries.

Do you have a link maybe? My quick search found nothing...