“the official license isn’t evidence, and I’m a clown”

Just give up already

The entire forum has already proved the point that you’re wrong. You’re incapable of understanding that you lost. An economics teacher might be able to get it into your head.

“taking the train is free once you’ve paid for the ticket”

You’re not allowed to use it after downloading it for free unless you use it on Apple hardware that it paid for. If you don’t have Apple hardware you only have a file you’re not allowed to use. Paying for Apple hardware pays for the license permitting you to use it.

That’s like saying that using a fixed cost subscription service is free because you’re not paying at the time that you access it.

Go take an economics class

If including it with a paid product has a cost for the manufacturer, then you did pay for it as a part of the price of the product which you did pay for.

It’s paid for as a part of the hardware and not listed separately on the receipts. All those 3rd party components in the OS are not free and has to be paid for. That comes from the hardware sale.

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

You agree that the terms of this License will apply to any Apple-branded application software product that may be preinstalled on your Apple-branded hardware

you are granted a limited, non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time.

to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, or macOS High Sierra (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control

and you agree not to, install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.

You’re only allowed to use Mac OS and software for it on a Mac computer, which you have to pay for.

The license additionally calls out included 3rd party licensed fonts which which you can’t use unrestricted without a specific license from the market of that font

To be extremely pedantic, there’s licensing costs involved with a bunch of 3rd party libraries included in the OS (HDR, h265, radios, etc), but they cover those royalties / fees via hardware sales and the license to use it follows the hardware

It’s built on Wine, any general improvements to compatibility will generally support desktop programs using the same APIs

Best you got is recurring audits