Reports that Apple Computer Inc. has taken legal action against so called hacker who has been working on OS X for Intel to make it work on other processors appear misplaced. The OSx86 Project yesterday speculated at Apple action against the hacker.

It was posts and downloads from Maxxuss that spurred Apple to take legal action against the site, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to force it to remove certain links and posts from its forums.  When Maxxuss' own site disappeared it made it seem like Apple may have extended its action.

However, this morning the site reports that the hacker -- Maxxuss -- has simply launched a new Web site and blog to share what he find out with others who want to run Mac software on their Intel-based PCs.

What I simply do not understand is Apple's strong approach. If a person buy's their OS and finds a way to run it on a clone, what has apple lost really? In fact they stand to gain a large following. If they simply do not support running this on a non apple machine and people are left out in the cold where then is the problem. It seems that making it clear that anyone who sells such a machine would then be violating the law as they are then cloning for resale.

I really think that flooding the market with MAC OS on many or any Intel platforms would not be a bad thing. If they state they would never support such a beast should be clear. If people are paying for the OS where then is the problem? Personally I have refused to buy a MAC over this position. I personally would not want a clone but I think that all forms of dictatorships aren't the type of people I do business with.

I would simply like to ask Steve and WAZ did you guys forget your days in college? Seems that everyone else remembers your bout with the phone companies but you! Selling an OS without support could in no way harm Apple in fact it would only place the OS in places it was never seen before. Who knows you might even find out as many PC people that it runs faster on AMD than it ever did on Intel.