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Apple fires first shot in Clone Wars
THE MIGHTY APPLE will bring the full force of its dogs of law down upon cheeky cloning minnow Psystar according to The Gray Blog, a lawyerly web site specialising in copyright law.
The blog claims, "Apple, Inc, manufacturer of the well known line of computers and software, filed suit on July 3 in the federal district court for the northern district of California against Florida company Psystar, Inc. The suit alleges counts for violation of its shrink wrap license, trademark and copyright infringement."
Psystar has maintained that it is doing nothing wrong and that Apple's EULA may well be contrary to US monopolies legislation.
The Psystar saga has been well documented here at the INQUIRER (see L'Inqs below) and we'll keep you abreast of any further developments as they happen. ยต
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I guess this proves Psystar's products are the real deal, and are being perceived as a real threat to the Apple platform hardware monopoly. I don't expect Apple's legal team to fight the case on its merits, but rather use well-known corporate bullying tactics to exhaust and bankrupt their less well-endowed adversary (duh). Of course, they could just introduce a reasonably-priced value line, or (perhaps) license an unsupported/cut-down version of the OS. But that would leave their legal attack dogs gnawing on rawhide...
Can't wait to see what happens! really hope apple lose, proprietary sh*ts have been mugging morons for long enough.
so that they can finally take that damn 'Apple boxes only' clause out of the OS X license agreement, and maybe further down the road feel the pressure to support other systems using their OS.