[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Matthew T. Eskes]

On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 18:28 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> > lol.. You must be new to the whole Hackintosh thing. Getting around that
> > hurdle is trivial. Hell, it's to the point where you can even -choose- to
> > use actual Apple firmware in the EFI or not. Most don't, since there's no
> > reason to, but you get the picture. The box is, for all intents and
> > purposes, a Mac, from the hardware level on up, firmware included.
> >
> > Read more, Jim. :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bowie
> 
> Bowie, do you mean to tell me Apple's OS has no way to ID a real Apple
> underneath?
> 
> Really and truly?
> 
> I call BS.
> 
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Jim, Bowie's right, Apple does not seem to have any subsystem for
checking to see if the hardware you're running on is authentic other
than some, again like Bowie said, trivial stuff in which one can work
around.