Linked by David Adams on Fri 3rd Oct 2008 15:24 UTC
Gutsy/foolhardy Mac clone maker Psystar responded in August to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit with an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple. Earlier this week, Apple's lawyers filed a motion to have the suit dismissed, calling it "deeply flawed." In its statement, Apple contends: "One of the bedrock principles of antitrust law is that a manufacturer's unilateral decision concerning how to distribute its product and with whom it will deal cannot violate the Sherman Act."
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"No, in fact, Psystar has no restriction upon them to not do what they are doing. They legally reversed engineered a product for interoperability, then they legally built machines compatible with Apple's software offerings, and then they installed a completely legal copy of MacOS X onto the compatible machine, thus they created a product."
Actually Psystar does have legal copyright restrictions on them. For example, they are not licensed to re-distribute OS X, but yet they are doing so, which is the basis for the claims in actuality. Psystar downloads all the updates from Apple then hosts them on their own site, therefore redistributing a copyrighted work without permission. What would be different is if Psystar was for hire, you supplied the hardware, and hired them to install OS X with your own copy. That would be and is a different issue altogether. Unfortunately that is not the case at all.