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What is OpenCore Computer? (Illegal Hackintosh Vendor?) - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk - YouTube
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- Today on December 15, 2009,
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a California judge issued
a permanent injunction,
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which prohibits Psystar from
selling their commercial
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Hackintoshes, AKA open computers,
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which illegally are sold with
Apple's Mac OS X software.
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Surely today is a great
lesson in copyright law,
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and we won't have to deal
with this issue ever again.
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It happened again.
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(intense techno music)
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Does nobody frickin' learn from history?
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Really?
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We're doing this again?
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Okay, let's just get it over with.
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Hey guys, how are you all doing?
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Really, that's just great.
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I'm doing pretty great today, too,
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because I get high off of
other people's stupidity.
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That's why I made that Lit Mobile episode,
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and don't worry.
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I still have some followup
episodes planned for that.
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So stay tuned.
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But today we're gonna be
talking about another company
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that just does not seem to get it.
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OpenCore Computer launched
a commercial Hackintosh.
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What's a Hackintosh?
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Quick lesson.
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A Hackintosh is a portmanteau
of hack and Macintosh.
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Apples's macOS system software
is made to only run on Macs.
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But the Hackintosh community created ways
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to run that software
on non-Apple hardware.
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If you're not selling
the systems, generally,
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you won't have any legal issues with this,
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but commercial Hackintosh is
where we hit the big problems.
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That's what Psystar sold.
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They're defunct now.
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Anyway, back to OpenCore Computer,
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you can go to their
website, opencore.computer,
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to build your configuration,
but wait, hang on.
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Did they just steal the name and logo
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from the OpenCore bootloader developers?
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Shameless.
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Well, anyway, let's look at their website.
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They have a single page
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which tries to sell the
idea behind the computer.
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At the bottom, you can configure a system
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macOS Catalina installed,
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using the OpenCore bootloader.
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Huh, they misspelled illegally, weird.
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There's three models,
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but only the Velociraptor
is available on this day.
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If you ask me, the
company's gonna get shut
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down before the Megalodon even releases.
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Place your bets now.
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If you max everything out,
it'll cost you $4,819,
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if you pay the full amount.
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By the way, their config
wizard is tedious as (beeping).
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Now here's where I see the first red flag.
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Well, I saw a bunch already,
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but this is a real red flag.
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Because of the convoluted macOS
end user license agreement
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agreement, our payment
provider options are limited.
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Thus, we've chosen to only accept
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a Bitcoin payments currently.
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They even go on to
imply this isn't a scam.
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Personally, I don't think this is a scam.
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Well, at least yet.
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That's not the main thing
I'm concerned about.
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The main thing I'm concerned about
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is that they're violating copyright law
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and stealing other company's
intellectual property.
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Pro tip, don't do that.
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Now I'm no legal expert,
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but the macOS EULA stipulates
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you cannot redistribute, sell,
or sub-license this software.
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And it seems like OpenCore Computer
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is trying to get around that
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by only accepting Bitcoin payments.
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I'm not exactly sure
how that loophole works.
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So we'll see how long that actually lasts.
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Also taking a look at the
hero images on the website,
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the computer case looks Photoshopped.
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Knowing this company, it was probably
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with a pirated version of Photoshop.
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Anyway, the local
brightness and aspect ratio
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doesn't match up between these two images.
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And in case you're wondering,
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the computer case they're
using is a Lian Li TU-150.
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Now here's a question I have
received a million times.
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Krazy Ken, why doesn't Apple
just allow other people
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in companies to install
macOS on non-Apple hardware?
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It's a legit question.
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I get it.
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And we can go down a huge
rabbit hole of reasons,
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but the best answer I can give is this.
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They already tried that and it sucked,
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financially.
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There was a time where
Apple allowed other vendors
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to sell their own computers,
non-Apple computers,
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with Mac ROMs and macOS software,
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just like the SuperMac right here.
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And these computers were
collectively known as Mac Clones.
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With the success of Windows,
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Microsoft was gaining tons of users.
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This clearly demonstrated how successful
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their cross platform strategy was.
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- Because of the competitive pressures,
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Apple is doing more than just
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upgrading its Macintosh operating system.
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It has begun to license the macOS
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and authorize the manufacture
and sale of Macintosh clones.
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- The first official Mac clone
launched on March 27, 1995.
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It was a Radius System 100,
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and it featured a PowerPC
601 with a clock speed
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of up to 110 megahertz
and 264 megabytes of RAM.
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Over time, Apple actually
lost money doing this,
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and they weren't gaining
any more market share.
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So it totally wasn't worth it.
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Apple received $50 for
each Mac clone sold.
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There might've been some other
fluctuations in that price
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depending on different agreements,
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but it was pretty much
50 bucks per computer.
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And that was not enough
to keep this plan going.
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So some changes needed to be made.
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When Steve jobs came
back to Apple in 1997,
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he made a lot of changes with the company.
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And one of them had to
do with the Mac clones.
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- I went to the clone vendors,
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and I said, "Guys, we're
gonna go broke doing this.
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"And if we go down the (bleeping)
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"the whole ecosystem will
go down the (bleeping)
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"and you won't be here either.
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"So we gotta fix this.
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"We'd like to sell you our software,
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"but you've gotta pay a fair price for it,
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"not an exorbitant price,
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"just a fair percentage of the costs."
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And we outlined what that was.
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We asked them to do that.
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I personally asked them to do this.
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And they basically told
me to go pound sand.
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Being a man of perseverance,
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I asked five times over
the next three weeks,
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each time we were told to go pound sand.
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We finally made the
decisions we had to make.
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- Ultimately, Steve Jobs
killed the clone program.
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With the release of Mac OS 8
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no existing clone vendors
could sell computers
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with the newer operating system
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because they were only
licensed to sell computers
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with system seven.
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Umax, however, obtained a
license to ship Mac OS 8.
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So they could still do this whole thing.
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But that license expired in 1998.
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After that, the Mac clone
program shriveled and died.
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Shout out to my buddy, Steve,
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from Mac84 for helping me
research the Macintosh clones.
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He's actually working on a
much more in-depth video,
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which covers the clone history.
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Plus he covers many other
topics on his channel.
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So go check him out.
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And there were other Mac clones
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before the official
Macintosh clone program.
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I actually showed one of these
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and many other rare Apple
prototypes in this video,
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which you can watch with
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The Computer Clan YouTube
channel membership.
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So go check that out, too.
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So Apple already did try this,
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and we know history repeats itself
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if you don't learn from it,
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and they don't wanna go
down that road again.
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That's why they had to stop Psystar.
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And that's why they're gonna
stop Open Computer as well.
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My bet is this is not gonna
last more than a few months.
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And I'm totally cool with
the Hackintosh community.
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Heck I can't wait to try some
Hackintosh stuff out myself.
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I think that'll be fun.
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And if you do that stuff, great,
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just don't sell those things.
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So let me know in the comments below
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