You have a partial point, and I may have been sloppy with my words. But on the whole, you do not, and while I might willingly fool myself about a great many things, this is not one of them. I'm well aware that the license agreement claims to forbid running it on non Apple hardware.
However, no -- the software WAS "legally purchased" AND "not pirated".
I purchased, from Apple.com, a mac-mini, then in the apple app store paid for a stand-alone install of macos. I believe it was $20.
"legally purchased" -- I paid for it through the legitimate channel (as opposed to, say, buying it from anyone other than Apple Inc. like ebay)
"not pirated" -- Piracy (in this, that is, not the captain hook kind) context means taking advantage of the fact that digital assets can be perfectly duplicated to escape paying for it. I paid for it. I didn't duplicate it.
As to the issue of the Apple's "license agreement". On this we may simply view the world differently. It is my viewpoint that once a product is sold the original owner no longer is entitled to a reasonable expectation of control over its use. I can buy a screwdriver labeled "Only for use with Lowe's(tm) screws", and use it on whatever brand screws I want, because it's my screwdriver, and the notion that Lowe's gets to exert control over how I use a tool after I've legally bought it is
I am aware that currently some interpretations of US law are not congruous with this. I frankly don't care. You have the right to believe whatever you want, but to me law does not define truth. Interpretations of law frequently codify things that are not.
Regardless of bills passed or the outcome of court cases corporations are not (yet!) sentient entities, in 1897 Indiana the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was not exactly 3.2 -- it was pi, just like today, and all of my family members are equally human beings as anyone else despite much older laws asserting that some of them were 3/5th.
"fooling yourself" is a waste of effort. I'm well aware -- I have no romantic delusions about, for instance my copy of IDA Pro or MATLAB for example. It's a tool I greatly benefit from, that I cannot even come close to affording, so I stole it. Sure, it's almost certainly the case that in the coming years I'll again be in a position to legally purchase several licenses for work use, but that doesn't change the fact that I still pirated them.
But no, I legally purchased my copy of MacOS, it is not pirated, and I do not believe in the waste of time that is fooling ones self.
Congratulations, you have fooled yourself. You don’t have to put a lot of effort into convincing me that you didn’t because it doesn’t matter, I don’t care.
Heh, it's just like before, you're almost there but....
No, no... While I'll admit the truth, that I certainly put more effort into attempting to be understandable than I normally do, I believe you missed the reason why. If you use simple theory of mind maybe then it'll make sense to you.
I've never tried to "convince you" as you say, what would I get out of it, and also, if someone like you is determined to see the sky as green, they'll see green no matter how many blue skies you show them.
I know i don't "fool myself", it's not actually even plausible enough to be taken seriously, like, i donno, like if i suddenly claimed to be the best pitcher in the NL. :)
but everyone knows that, and I bet you do too.
What I was hoping I could help you see is there is a difference between a pedantic strict ruleset, like, say, laws, and human truths. and that we are to be their masters, not the other way around. Because if you go through life only seeing things through the lens you want to see, you'll miss out of a lot of cool stuff, not to mention, if past history means anything, often ending up on the wrong side of it :/
I donno, I do admit that I have the aspie trait that it's hard for me to just smile and nod to make someone go away, because i think (well, most) humans deserve respect. What you're misinterpreting as "effort to convince" I think the correct term would be is "altruistically try to help". I don't know you, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't feel bad at least trying to help.
Anyway, best, regardless.
maybe try to remember -- fooling yourself is being in denial about something, I think if you reread what I said before it'll click that that's not going on.
However, no -- the software WAS "legally purchased" AND "not pirated".
I purchased, from Apple.com, a mac-mini, then in the apple app store paid for a stand-alone install of macos. I believe it was $20.
"legally purchased" -- I paid for it through the legitimate channel (as opposed to, say, buying it from anyone other than Apple Inc. like ebay)
"not pirated" -- Piracy (in this, that is, not the captain hook kind) context means taking advantage of the fact that digital assets can be perfectly duplicated to escape paying for it. I paid for it. I didn't duplicate it.
As to the issue of the Apple's "license agreement". On this we may simply view the world differently. It is my viewpoint that once a product is sold the original owner no longer is entitled to a reasonable expectation of control over its use. I can buy a screwdriver labeled "Only for use with Lowe's(tm) screws", and use it on whatever brand screws I want, because it's my screwdriver, and the notion that Lowe's gets to exert control over how I use a tool after I've legally bought it is
I am aware that currently some interpretations of US law are not congruous with this. I frankly don't care. You have the right to believe whatever you want, but to me law does not define truth. Interpretations of law frequently codify things that are not.
Regardless of bills passed or the outcome of court cases corporations are not (yet!) sentient entities, in 1897 Indiana the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was not exactly 3.2 -- it was pi, just like today, and all of my family members are equally human beings as anyone else despite much older laws asserting that some of them were 3/5th.
"fooling yourself" is a waste of effort. I'm well aware -- I have no romantic delusions about, for instance my copy of IDA Pro or MATLAB for example. It's a tool I greatly benefit from, that I cannot even come close to affording, so I stole it. Sure, it's almost certainly the case that in the coming years I'll again be in a position to legally purchase several licenses for work use, but that doesn't change the fact that I still pirated them.
But no, I legally purchased my copy of MacOS, it is not pirated, and I do not believe in the waste of time that is fooling ones self.