What will be the procedure to install Mac OS in your pc?

You can’t, unless you break the law and make a hackintosh.
I think that’s done by downloading a virtual machine like VMware and then sourcing a copy of OSX from a torrent site. I’m sure if you google ‘hackintosh’ you can find out how to do it in more detail.

Only certain PC hardware can run OS X problem-free without a bit of tweaking. For those that can run it, the procedure varies a bit based on what hardware you have.

@Crumpet Legality is a non-issue. That section of the license is practically unenforceable unless Apple strips every vestige of FreeBSD out of OS X.

@jerv: what does FreeBSD have to do with it? The FreeBSD license, and BSD licenses in general, don’t do much to restrict what you do with the code. They basically just expect you to credit the original owner and respect his copyright, and propagate a warranty disclaimer. It’s not like the GPL, a license that says modified code has to remain open. You can use BSD code in proprietary products pretty much without hindrance.

But, yeah, legality is probably a non-issue. The question of why anyone would want to use a piece of shit like MacOS X in the first place aside, your chances of getting caught are pretty damn near nil and, if you have a license to the software to begin with, there is probably little Apple can legally do about it – ‘cause it’s not like installing their OS hurts Apple somehow. The only real concern you have is being caught pirating, if you go that route.

@bolwerk Right or wrong, there are enough people willing to make a stink over the issue that it would be a liability, if for no reason other than PR and/or the legal hassles of being dragged through the courts. In other words, it’s not that Apple stole code so much as it’s just a can of worms that is best left unopened even if Apple is 150% in the right. Hence, my use of the word “practically”.

You are correct about the pirating though. The trick is buying a copy of OS X to make your Hackintosh.

Apple has basically given zero shits about Hackintoshes. They could easily block them but don’t. People have been doing it since they switched to Intel over seven years ago. They did sue Pystar but they were selling hackintoshes.

But I have used one for a long time. Google TonyMac and use his buyers guide. Really, OS X will not work on a random laptop or Dell you have laying around.

Mine workss just fine but I bought parts that were known to work with OSX. And don’t even think about it if you have a AMD CPU. It might boot but you will be in a world of hurt.

Don’t even bother making a hackintosh, they are more trouble than they are worth. Just buy a Mac if you want the Mac experience. You will only get limitations and headaches with a hackintosh.

…or run Linux with an OS X look-alike shell like Mac4Lin.

@jerv: besides the text of the license not prohibiting commercial binary-only reuse, the “ideology” behind BSD licenses (Apache is similar) is that commercial software vendors can use it. GPL takes the opposite approach, a point of contention – BSD people raise butthert stinks about the “restrictive” nature of the GPL, to the point that they’ve almost eliminated dependence on GCC in FreeBSD.

I can’t see how it could possibly be a liability. Apple is generally seen as a welcome contributor to FreeBSD, and supporting FreeBSD could be one of the few points of praise Apple actually deserves. Even M$ is using re-appropriated BSD code for winsock, or at least was.

@bolwerk Fanaticism doesn’t have to make sense, and neither do lawsuits.

@jerv: who are these fanatics then? Any lawsuit claiming Apple is violating the BSD license, the FreeBSD license in particular, would probably be dismissed swiftly with prejudice. It would be a fly for Apple’s legal department to swat. That’s assuming that there is even standing to file suit by anybody other than the copyright owner, the FreeBSD Foundation, which has good relations with Apple and makes extensive use of Apple code itself.

Apple has real legal liabilities, but this doesn’t sound like one of them.

@bolwerk We live in an era where perception is reality, and facts rarely matter. In a world where things happened the way they’re supposed to, in a way that makes sense, you would be entirely correct… but we don’t live in that sort of world.

And if your perception is the risk of Apple being sued for violations of the BSD license is infinitesimally small, with an even more remote consequent probability that they’d actually be meaningfully damaged by such a suit, it’s probably in line with reality. The BSD license simply doesn’t make a difference to whether Apple can enforce its silly hardware tie-in.

I’ve seen too much messed up shit to agree that it won’t happen, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t really affect you or I much anyways.

Considering that Apple has a larger economy than many nations, I agree that the odds of them being meaningfully damaged by much of anything is rather remote.

They no doubt have a legal department that works around the clock dealing with mostly easily dispensed lawsuits.