| You seem strangely hostile toward the people stating that it is a violation of the EULA, but none of these people are saying that they enjoy the EULA and none of them are expressing disapproval of you for violating the EULA. > Yes. Those legally binding EULAs with the associated EULA-violations we've constantly heard people getting jailed over. Businesses care about software EULAs, but no end-user is getting jailed for running OS X on x86 hardware, however, people who sell hackintosh computers have been sued and lost in court [1][2]. Also, it is unlikely anyone would go to jail over this (due to criminal law versus tort law), however it is quite likely a company egregiously violating OS X's EULA and profiting from it would be sued and lose in court. > How about you Mac-heads come to terms with Macs being bog standard X86 hardware and OSX being a bog standard X86 OS "Mac-heads" know this; however, "Mac-heads" may or may not support Apple's EULA terms. I don't think that any Mac fans enjoy the fact that they cannot legally run OSX in more places. > running a bog standard X86 OS on bog standard X86 hardware is absolutely within everyone's legal right to do See [1] and [2] again. I disagree with the outcome of the Psystar court case and it's clear that you do too, however, it has, in fact, been tested in court and unfortunately the courts decided that it is not "within everyone's legal right to do". > In the meantime I will virtualize OSX to get the Mac-specific parts of my build and tests running, and leave everything else on proper Linux. I will too, and I highly doubt Apple will ever go after you or I for doing so, however, it may be unwise for a business to do so at a significant scale (but Apple may still turn a blind eye so as not to be hostile towards developers which enhance the platform). As a final note, I am a 100% Linux user, I try to avoid using proprietary software, I do not enjoy using OS X, I do not like Apple's business practices, and I also think you should be able to run OS X in a VM legally, however, in the current version of the United States, that is not the case. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/29/court_denies_final_p... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation |