View this article at: http://dev.macnn.com/articles/06/02/15/apple.poetry Wednesday, Feb 15, 2006 5:20pm Apple, OS x86 Project poetry Members of the OS x86 Project recently discovered a hidden message to hackers within the hardware restrictions of Mac OS X, and have now unearthed a poem from Cupertino-based tech giant. One hacker named Maxxuss has discovered that a few pieces of Mac OS X search for a secret message in "commpage" which gets decrypted via the TPM (Trusted Platform Module). "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." Following the spirit, members of the OS x86 Project have offered up their own poem to the developers of Apple's work. "Rime of the Ancient Hacker; There once was a hacker named Maxxuss; who Steve did not think was a genius. But Steve pondered awhile, grabbed the phone with a smile, and said "Bill, there’s a thing to discuss..."