AppleInsider | Mac clone maker vows to test Apple on OS X licensing terms

If the OS doesn't work well on any old hardware why would you use it? If the OS is designed to work optimally within a certain hardware configuration - why even bother. That is what Linux is for. This makes no sense. And why would Apple, both a hardware and software/OS vendor, want to compromise on the performance of their OS to allow a small part of the market do this?

This crops up every couple of years and every time it gets laughed off. Do you want to drop a V8 or V12 engine in a Smartcar as well? There isn't enough market to make this viable and its a grandstand gesture by a small start-up who wants sympathy purchasing by people silly enough to do so, for their David and Goliath act.

Everyone seems to think that they are better marketers than those who are actually doing it. No cost/benefit ratio making sense here. Just the old "I want what I want because I want it" stuff. Why did they do this? Because they can't make any money selling in the traditional PC market. PC start-up failures are a majority. By going after Apple they differentiate themselves, get sympathy sales, garner some revenue and when they falter and fail, all those sympathetic purchasers are out of luck support-wise. But the folks who did it walk away with cash stuffed in their pockets whistling a happy tune.

Apple is the success it is because it controls both the hardware and the software....the machines and the OS. When you start opening the OS to other pieces of hardware you run into problems. This has been Microsoft's approach, and has made them lots of money. But it is also the reason the Windows is constantly having issues.

Installing OS X on other hardware might be fun and I appreciate people figuring out how to do it, but in the long run it will not be beneficial to the user.