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Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
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Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?


  • Subject: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
  • From: Colin Cornaby <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:55:02 -0700
  • Resent-date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:25:58 -0700
  • Resent-from: Colin Cornaby <email@hidden>
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Hey,

I want to write code to explicitly keep my application from running on non-Apple branded Intel hardware. I've seen this done in several other applications, and I was wondering what indicators other developers usually look for to tell if an application is running on some other vendor's hardware. Until Apple officially condones OS X on non-Apple hardware I don't want to support users running pirated copies of OS X, on hardware that Apple doesn't support. Along with the ethical stuff, I also don't want to bother supporting systems running a hacked kernel and oddball graphics drivers.

-Colin
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