Thanks to people familiar with PsyStar, we know now that the mediation procedure between PsyStar an Apple, a compulsory attempt at settling out of court, has failed to produce any outcome. It was mostly a going through the motions, according to WorldOfApple.
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as seen here http://osnews.com/thread?347926
"This is perhaps even more worrying for Apple and suggests that they aren't going to be able to fund legal teams until the opposition caves in through lack of funds and resources:"
Apple has a very strict price model it uses to validate and verify its legal expenses.
1. Apple sets aside X amount of money to win battles it is fairly certain it can win in the public eye, so as to make an example out of the company it destroys.
2. If 1 Then, Apple has justified it’s spending by winning the case and scaring others away who may later try the same thing.
This is what Apple hopes to do here. Apple’s other strategy won’t work as they want to make a martyr out of Psystar. Apples typical strategy goes something like this:
1. Apple sends a cease and desist letter.
2. Apple’s lawyer places a cease and desist phone call
3. Apple pays X amount of money to sent a hit man…
4. Normally it never makes it to step 3 as in step 2 the layer makes sure the person/company knows what will happen in step 3
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There is a summary on Ars, here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/mediation-between-apple-a...
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In any case, the real threat is efi-x. There is no doubt about this one, you buy a dongle that enables an industry standard protocol, EFI booting. This must be legal in itself.
You go into Amazon and pick up a retail copy of OSX on DVD. It does not say it is an upgrade and it doesn't require any previous installation.
So far there is nothing you've done wrong, you've not violated copyright or hacked anything.
You now boot and install. In doing so, you click through an agreement which among other things binds you not to install on any but Apple labelled equipment.
You write to Apple's legal department, along with several hundred thousand others, inviting them to sue you.
Can they? Will they?
This the real problem. Well, also PearC in Germany and by extension the EU, but the problem in purest form is Apple's insistence on selling retail copies of OSX while forbidding people to install it on machines that it supports and can be installed on. It seems most unlikely that this is going to fly long term. Something will give, regardless of what happens to Psystar.
Probably the share price!
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