| The guy didn't have a proper ADC membership. He has the student membership (which I have) that is free. You don't get the seeds with the student membership. He got the seed from someone else.
I fully agree with Apple in taking action against this person. I don't think Apple specifically targeted a poor university student, but it just so happens that the person who seeded that particular build of Tiger was a student.
A lot of people on the net seem to be up in arms about Apple suing a 'customer' for distributing beta copies of the software. What most people tend to forget is that beta software and release candidates in particular can and do end up as release builds. A beta is released to iron out bugs. What happens if a version that is released has practically no showstopper bugs and is deemed production worthy? That beta probably then recompiled with optimizations, less debug info and made into a release. If that beta was widely circulated, it would be no different from circulating the final build (albeit with less optimizations and more debug info build in).
This is all conjecture on my part and I admit the process I've just outlined tends to hold for release candidates and not beta builds, but then there's nothing to stop Apple from doing just that. |