Buy Leopard, Download It, or neither?

[GoCubsGo]

I know this is dubious legally but ... i'd probably download and install it while i'm waiting for the disk to arrive. I get educational discount but I haven't found a store here that accepts it so I have to order online and wait for it to ship.

It's not really illegal if you've paid for it is it?

Although this time round i'm thinking about selling my MB and buying a MBP with leopard Preinstalled.

Yes it is still illegal I believe.
Why wouldn't you want to wait as it takes less than 3 days to arrive usually?

 

[BlakTornado]

You can download operating systems? Hmmm... Maybe I'll spend that money I was saving for Leopard on something el-

I mean, I'll buy it

(I was kidding about the first bit. I'll genuinely buy it )

 

[i4k20c]

without needing any lectures as stated in previous posts, one of the main reasons i switched to mac osx was that i knew i would be able to afford and attain legal versions of new OS releases. I never attained legal versions of MS OS because i felt the price was ridiculous and way out of my means, but i feel apple charges a extremely reasonable price for its new Operating Systems, especially, after being used to MS prices....

 

[Stang68]

im buying it with my student discount, i just dont know when. I'll probably wait a few weeks to see how everyone else likes it.

 

[Maui]

Hey thats not fair. What about those of us to are buying new iMacs for our school year. WE don't have 150 to pay just because we couldn't wait until october.

You have a very strange definition of "fair." It's not "fair" that you can't afford to pay for something, so you just steal it? That's "fair." Would you think it "fair" if your employer required you to work, but then said he couldn't afford to pay you? Wait until you work on your own program, then try to sell it, and someone steals it claiming it isn't "fair" that you try to make them pay for it.

 

[twoodcc]

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I'm gonna buy it. Thinking about server also

 

[iBookG4user]

I'll buy it, just like I did for Tiger.

 

[TBi]

You have a very strange definition of "fair." It's not "fair" that you can't afford to pay for something, so you just steal it? That's "fair." Would you think it "fair" if your employer required you to work, but then said he couldn't afford to pay you? Wait until you work on your own program, then try to sell it, and someone steals it claiming it isn't "fair" that you try to make them pay for it.

Well your analogy is quite wrong.

Unless of course the analogy is that you are a freelance worker who sells his employer a version of software that's two years old for full price and then expects the employer to pay full price for the new version released one month later.

Would it not be fair to offer this loyal employer a discount on the full price? The original software had probably already more than recouped its cost over the last 2 years and the money you just got helped keep you in business while writing the new one.

It's pretty much a kick in the teeth for a loyal customer, even if you agree to the original terms and conditions.

Whether i agree or disagree with how people react in this situation doesn't matter, but i do understand why people react in certain ways.

 

[aaronw1986]

I'm hoping to get it free from my student developer membership. However, that expires end of November, so even if they do give it for free, I might not get it. I will then buy a copy for my MBP. I plan to buy a Mac Pro with it already installed.

 

[djejrejk]

I'll get a free copy via ADC

Umm,... I wouldn't call that free. Unless the boss is paying for it.