Re: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
Re: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
- Subject: Re: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
- From: Andrei Tchijov <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:54:14 -0400
Isn't a little too ambitious to assume that you will succeeded were
Apple fails (if it will fail)? If Apple fails to prevent Mac OS X
from running on "un-authorized" hardware, what chances yours (or
anyone else) application has to achieve the same goal? If your
application will be wildly successful and huge number of people will
run Mac OS X on none-Apple hardware, you should have no doubts that
some one will break through what ever protection you will care to
devise (and it will be even easier if they will search through Cocoa-
Dev archives and look into this discussion ). Otherwise (your
application is mildly successful and just a few people running Mac OS
X on "wrong" hardware) why bother? Disclaimer stating that you are
not supporting "un-authorized" hardware will do just fine.
Andrei
On Jun 19, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
Am 17.06.2006 um 21:55 schrieb Colin Cornaby:
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.
Have you checked what ASP returns for unknown computers running OS
X? I'd guess that it'd be much easier to just ask people for an ASP
report (which helps with most bug reports anyway) and if it's an
odd CPU/hardware combo you'd know they're running either a third-
party-upgraded Mac (I think there's some hacks like a bigger Core
Duo for Mac minis) or a PC.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden