Safari for Windows: Illegal to Install?
Martin LaMonica over at CNET.com pointed out something rather interesting in the Safari TOS. It specifically says “The software allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.”
Apple apparently hasn’t gotten use to the whole making browsers for Windows thing yet…..
I know that no person actually bothers to read this junk, but when the company that actually MAKES the software doesn’t bother to read it, it’s an insult. Apply, along with other companies, can and WILL use the TOS to sue anyone who alters their programs or hardware in anyway. So why would they literally just copy and paste the thing into every program?
After seeing Martin LaMonica blog, Fabio Zambelli of settleB.IT informs him that “the Apple license has been updated so that Windows PC users can install Safari without fear of violating any licenses. Zambelli says the change occurred overnight Wednesday to Thursday European time.”
[CNET: Safari for Windows: Only for ‘Apple-labeled’ computers?]
Tags: Apple, Browser, Explorer, Mac, Mozilla, Safari, TOS, windows
Technically correct, but nitpicking. Everyone knows these license agreements are 99% the same and are usually copy and pasted. Has the news become so doldrum that we have to dredge up things like this?
Yes, you have a point, but it was fixed and life goes on. What’s the big deal? Accidents happen and no one is immune from them.