Apple Seeks (Poetic) Justice

Seems Apple has hidden a secret message to OSX86 hackers to find in the 10.4.4 build of Mac OS X for Intel. And this time it's in verse!

Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.

Sure, it's not the greatest poem, but how funny is this! I've always loved easter eggs in software and this is the best kind. The people who run OSX86 Project site have offered up their own poetic reply to Apple. You can read it at their site.

I humbly offer up my own poetic reply in the style of William Carlos Williams after the jump...

This Is Just to Say

I have beaten
the DRM
that was in
the Intel box

and which
you were probably
saving
for Leopard.

Forgive me
it was auspicious
so sweet
and so fast.
- not Maxxus

Feel free to add your own Ode to Apple in the comments.

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Source: http://www.osx86project.org/index.php?option=com_content&tas…

Seems Apple has hidden a secret message to OSX86 hackers to find in the 10.4.4 build of Mac OS X for Intel. And this time it's in...

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Mark

So, uh... "pirate" and "great" now rhyme, huh? I suppose Apple's QA doesn't have a "spittin' lyrics and mad beatz" department.

"To: MadPoet
From: Apple QA
Subject: pirate and great don't rhyme

Message: Suggested alternative --
He found on bitTorrent
an OS not abhorrent

February 15 2006 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

R Muffet

ninjabong, we don't see too many trolls on TUAW, so you're a bit of a novelty!

The pirate flag over Cupertino was the nascent Mac division asserting its independence from the Apple II division, whose product (and profits) had given the company its prominence. Nothing to do with ripping off IP.

The blue boxes were young Wozniak and Jobs's teenage rebellious pranks to "stick it to the man" and their sales probably amounted to less than a tank of gas for Woz's combi and a few acid tabs for Jobs. Nothing to do with Apple Computer, which was a respectable 1970s company.

February 15 2006 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

russdogg

There once was a man from Cupertino,
touting OS encryption at his Keynote.
But the code wasn't all there,
just like ol' Steve's hair,
and now mac OS runs on my Tivo!

I wish!

Free Tivo2Go for Macintosh! He's a political prisoner and has been held captive for far too long.

February 15 2006 at 3:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ninjabong

Oh, they don't want you to pirate OS X - NO WONDER they took down the old pirate flag from the Cupertino campus not to mention being founded off profits from the sale of BlueBoxes used to illegally exploit the phone system.

Hell Pot this is Kettle, notice the intresting black color.

February 15 2006 at 3:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rajiv seth

that was not a poem - it was a limerick - a five line verse that usually begins 'there once was...' and has the rhyming pattern of aabba as in
there once was a lady from tottenham
who had no manners or had forgotten 'em
at tea at the vicars
she threw off her knickers
because she said she felt hot in 'em

February 15 2006 at 2:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

shrimp

C'mon number 9. It was JUST posted. Give TUAW a break. If you really want to have the fastest news, go to digg. Digg is constant breaking news, TUAW is a blog, not a news site.

February 15 2006 at 2:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kevin

i dont get their response poem. are they saying that apple and microsoft should work together?

February 15 2006 at 2:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ellliot

the post is gone i dont know why but it had a red ribon with the apple logo in the center of it.

February 15 2006 at 1:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ellliot

the post is gone i dont know why but it had a red ribon with the apple logo in the center of it.

February 15 2006 at 1:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jomy

Roses are red
Aqua is blue

Don't steal Mac OS
Cause we like to sue