2010/4/11 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com>: > On 11 April 2010 21:47, Roberto Padovani <padovan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> for the virtualization, the problem is the absence of the drivers for >> most of the pc hardware.... unless you happen to have a pc with the >> very few types of devices used in macs. > > Well, virtualization software like VirtualBox "fakes" it's own > hardware - I'm hoping the faked hardware is similar to a real Mac. My > real PC is Intel based (Quad Core), graphics card is a average ATI or > Nvidia card. I believe real Mac's use similar hardware. > >> You don't need to proof anything to buy it, but consider that: > > Good. > > >> - it is expressly forbidden by the license to install on a non-Apple >> assembled hardware > > I do not care about such rubbish license restrictions, and I don't > believe such a license is valid in my country either (South Africa). >
I didn't intend to be a moralist, I was just pointing it out. With this very same purpouse, I'll point out another one. Even though I own a Mac, so I was only moved by curiosity, I also thought that such a restriction might not be valid in my country (Italy). However, after researching a while, I made up the idea that there are no specific national limits about these kinds of agreements in the license and that only international anti-trust and trade regulations apply. I'm no lawyer, but for what I read those regulations forbid a hardware manufacturer to force you to use only his software (i.e. you are allowed to install win XP on the mac you have bought), but not the contrary (i.e. I give you my software but it is only for XYZ hardware). R. > >> - you can easily find used mac mini's, if the 500€ new one are out of budget > > This might also be a good path to follow. Thanks for pointing it out. > > > -- > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
