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by Anonymous User on Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 09:41:30 AM PDT

If the packaging for the opsys prominently states that it must be installed only on an Apple-branded computer, well, silly (lots of purchased copies are coexisting with other systems on non-Apple hardware) but legally enforceable.
Otherwise, two big problems. One, if you only find out after you have bought it can you get a refund? If not, I think Apple is in default of an implied contract.
Second, that probably brings it into "shrinkwrap" territory. Yeah, a number of outfits still use the tactic of putting a so-called contract where you don't see it until you open the packaging, and then say (see point one) it is too late to decide against the product. I am aware of controversy about this going back to the Sixties, and also that courts have repeatedly thrown out these "contracts."



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