Linux 1, MacOS 0 (illegal gcc download for minors)

[colin davidson]

Hmm. Pop in the CD that the original posters has already stated he did
not receive. Now *that's* useful advice.

Perhaps the issue is *why* did he not get the system disk. Was this a
second hand MacBook?

The other Colin

On 3/6/09, Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Relax. The XCode tools are included on the system disk that came with your
> new MacBook. No need to go online and give up your personal info. Just pop
> in the disk and run the installer.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Aaron.
>
>
>  On 6-Mar-09, at 4:15 AM, Marc Lanctot wrote:
>
>
> > I just bought my macbook I'd talked about before and just went through a
> striking experience that I figure you may all appreciate. Sorry in advance
> if this is already well-known, but it's news to me.
> >
> > Darwinports is FreeBSD's ports for Mac (think portage on emerge), so it
> needs gcc to build things you download. I was surprised -- not outright
> shocked because I didn't expect it to be developer-friendly -- not to find
> gcc installed already. So, I tried fink, it gave me a weird error when
> trying to install gcc42, something about dependencies with unrestricted
> packages then I told it to install gcc-4.0 which told me to go download
> xcode to get gcc. Some googling also pointed me to xcode to get gcc. Even
> the gcc download page doesn't have binaries for MacOS.
> >
> > To download xcode you need to register an account the the Apple Developer
> Connection. No free compiling for me unless I OK it with Apple. It's a
> conspiracy.. but, I said, fine, in my attempt to become a Mac user I'll suck
> up and give in to this. It's part of the experience, right? So getting this
> account just to get xcode has your home address as a required field. So now,
> using gcc on my Mac means Apple has to be able to track me down to my home.
> In case I'm hand-crafting viruses or something? Ok, so whatever, at this
> point it's a bit much but I comply anyway.
> >
> > At the end of the account creation process, part of the agreement says "I
> confirm that I'm 18 years of age or older." Luckily I am, but this put me
> over. If I was 16 years old making some hard-earned money, went out and
> bought a Mac .. it would not be legal for me to run gcc on it. Actually, it
> would be as long as my parents or older siblings downloaded it for me.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a way around this, or is it really illegal to
> download xcode on MacOS if you're under 18?
> >
> > (Note: some sites says it comes on the CD with your MacOS disks but I got
> no such disks... but as long as these disks are provided for free then it
> should be OK...)
> >
> > I'm steps closer to dual-booting this thing with Linux.....
> >
> > Marc
> >
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