<html><head></head><body><div>Ah. The joy's of closed source, welcome to f*$%ing software jail, apple.</div><div><br></div><div>'You don't' is the short answer. The license for the old OS is once per machine, 2 per family, NON-TRANSFERABLE.</div><div><br></div><div>According to an analysis of the license terms (that I now can't find on the interwebs) that hardware can be sold or given away but the software license is no longer valid. The new owner is required to purchase a license even if the box came with working OS.</div><div><br></div><div>That screws donated hardware to non-profits.</div><div><br></div><div>Apple want's people to buy new stuff at least every 2 years so the new OS is available free for new hardware (with Apple account and built in user tracking - of course it's only used to improve products). The non-supported versions of OSX are purged from the public space (and legals sent to takedown unauthorized download locations as fast as they pop up.). Old hardware is not cool enough for the turtleneck crowd.</div><div><br></div><div>Run Linux on the old hardware. Debian still has a ppc port. Check here for details:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi">https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 10:21 -0400, leam hall wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Related question as the local Goodwill store sometimes has Macs and I want to stay legal. If I get an old mac where can I get a legal, if old, OS copy?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Leam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>I have a Mac OS X server disk :-) </div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 21:54 +0800, Boris Borisov wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Recently purchased old mac mini power. I'm just asking if someone got copy of old osx.</div>
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