I remember back-in-the day when every week or so you’d hear about another impossible or useless scenario in which Linux had been installed to surprising hardware. Inevitably, a large group would start complaining about “why you do this” and “what a waste of time”. It was mostly about the hardware hacker challenging his skills, and the answer to “why” usually boiled down to “because you can”.

Ironically, the situation is exactly the opposite here. The motivation behind asking the question “why” in the first place is “because you can’t”. Violating the contract that is a EULA is illegal. It’s not a criminalized act and typically falls into the “offence” category (which makes it no more or less legal). If this was a pirated version of OS X, then what’s being highlighted here is the committing of a crime.

While I’m not going to pretend like I’m a big fan of things like legally binding EULAs and even the criminalization of file sharing (data wants to be free, that’s why we innovated computer in the beginning, not to make you wealthy), I’m the kind of moron who expresses his distaste for that by moving my computing into areas where creativity like this is supported and encouraged rather than fought and criminalized, where you can be part of a community rather than a perpetrator with it, where freedom is something that you innovate rather than violate. The world is actually full of choices, and I have to laugh at a person who choses to do something illegal to make a device worse. Hopefully, I’m never put in a position of driving my car in an adjacent lane to such a well-reasoned, insightful, and socially responsible owner and user of technology.

You are confused, breaking a contract is not illegal, Apple could sue you for breaking the EULA and win damages but you would not see any jail time because you are not breaking any laws.

Along with what David said… a contract is something that is worked out, agreed upon, and signed by two parties. An EULA is not a contract, because one of the parties had no input/choice on its contents… and -never- signed it.