How To: Buy OS X Leopard for Under $40, Legally*
10.17.07 - 12:31pm
Digging through my feeds I found this hilarious article by Crunchgear essentially describing how to take advantage of a local colleges’ student discount that sold OS X Tiger for $40/license and most likely will be selling OS X Leopard for $40/license also. What they did very wrong was 1)mention splitting a single license amongst 2 users which is piracy and 2)suggested non-college individuals to use college students to purchase these academic licenses for them. After reading the article I am questioning if the Crunchgear writer even went to college and if he even thought about what he wrote before he hit Publish. So after reading the comments and laughing at the number of readers saying they are unsubscribing (it’s ok to laugh at their blunder, I cleared it with TBS) I decided to show you a slightly more legal way to go about getting your copy of OS X Leopard.
Step 1
Gather 4 friends/acquaintances/enemies along with yourself and grab $38 from each of them.
Step 2
Jump on Amazon.com and buy the Family Pack of OS X Leopard
Step 3
Distribute licenses to your friends/acquaintances/enemies. Install OS X Leopard and have a blast then feel free to send me a check for $129 * 5 - $189 = $456. Enjoy your copy of OS X Tiger knowing you helped a charity while purchasing your newfangled operating system.
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This article was made primarily to poke fun @ Crunchgear and to inform the consumer that some slightly more legitimate options exist asides from blatantly ripping off Apple/Bookstores and “sharing” a license. If you go through with this make sure you understand Apple’s stance on the Family Pack, which has been copied below for your ease. This is a great idea for people that share an apartment, especially college students in dorms as I don’t think this $40/license for college students exists at all schools.
The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that household. By “household†we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home, or condominium, including student members who are primary residents of that household but reside at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.
Thanks for your idea.
I’ll try it tomorrow.