interesting. i wouldn't have read the agreement so thank you for the heads up. it seems as though justin came through with a g4 for me so license restrictions will not be a factor. a special thanks to justin kremer for his generosity and help from me and my children. njmnh nnkcn that is a thanks from my youngest... On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:19:43PM -0500, dutchman_mn at charter.net wrote: > > He said he was a student, I just did not know what school he went to and > > if they had academic discounts on Mac software. I was pointing out that > > the U of M does offer Mac OSX licenses for purchase. In this case, I > > was advocating the purchase of licensed software rather that downloading > > something that had been posted to some server. > > As far as I know, running OS X on hardware (or virtual machines) not > explicitly sanctioned by Apple is against their terms of use. > > If your school does not have a discount on Mac software and hardware, > you need to purchase it yourself in the Apple academic store. Asking > somebody to buy it for you is again, against the terms of use. > > >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:56:32PM -0500, dutchman_mn at charter.net > >> wrote: > >>> If you know a U of M student, you can have them purchase it for > >>> around $30+ > >> > >> As long as you don't worry about violating the terms of use, what's > >> ignoring the academic terms of use? Just some frosting on top... > > I do not like those terms, but if you want to play in that garden, you > have to pay the gardener. > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110224/8e6a0fab/attachment.html>