No place for h*ackintosh here. We Mac users pay and do not steal.
Hard to say whose in the right here. For instance my Mac Pro 3,1 runs High Sierra under either dosdude’s patches or under Clover (which is primarily developer for hackintoshes even through it is billed as an EFI Boot loader for Macs and PCs which primarily has bios but it also works with EFI.). Now does running an unsupported OS no matter how I run it make it right, ethical and legal? Really hard to say. It is a Mac, but one that Apple chose to stop supporting.
Hackintoshes are also in a gray area, but you’d be surprised how much tech from their Osx86 project can help unsupported Mac users or at least look at their r&d for ideas.
I myself did some hackintosh stuff 10 years ago and I developed on my darth Vader PC that I built from scratch. I eventually left the scene when the Mac Minis became easier and more desirable. Also had my share of MacBook Pros. I used to write a tool for Darwin that would clone hackintosh and Mac hard drives called Clonetool. It borrowed some tech from the developer Macs that allowed the drives to be blessed for booting. It was a rare find back then.
This is a little known fact but when Apple was developing Mac OS X for Intel that it ran on Dell Computers and they kept them hidden underneath their desks. They obviously did not have Intel hardware from the start. You could say the hackintosh came first.
Lastly if it wasn’t for NeXT none of this stuff would be here today and the XNU would never have existed.
