Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jun 2008 22:13 UTC
PsyStar introduced its Mac clone to much media attention back in April, causing many discussions about the company's legal status, the validity of the Mac OS X EULA, and even PsyStar's very existence. It soon turned out PsyStar was a real company, and was actually shipping the OpenComputer Mac Clone to its customers, to generally rather favourable reviews - not stellar of course, but acceptable, with the biggest downside being the inability to use the Software Update tool, forcing users to download OS updates straight from PsyStar's servers - to prevent updates from Apple hosing the OpenComputer. We're a few months later now, and a few things have changed.
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IANAL - but if the "can only be used on Apple-branded computers" clause of the OS X EULA were found to be unenforceable, then it would not be the "end of the EULA as we know it."
The legal precedent would only apply to other EULAs that attempt to stipulate what hardware can or can't be used to run a piece of software. Offhand, I can't think of any other software that would be effected.