Yikes. We know there’s an OS X 10.4 build out there available on the underbelly of the net that will work on x86 systems, ie, on your average PC, but the geek community has been working on it and tweaking it and studying it for a while now and it’s been completely free if you can get your hands on it and discouraged in the first place. No one has really tried for personal or financial gain from the project, aside from perhaps the know-how required to implement it or the status of having done it…until now.
The site OSX86 Project [ http://osx86project.org/ ] has a photo from a shopfront in Bangkok where apparently copies of Mac OS X 10.4 for x86 systems are being sold at retail for about 6 Euros, or approximately 7 bucks American. They even dare to call the product a “retail version.” That’s just ridiculous. OSX86 Project is furious, and I imagine that Apple has already dispatched the lawyers, as they rightfully should. Read all about it:
[ http://osx86project.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=2 ]