What Is the Issue in the Psystar Case?
Linked by Nescio on Mon 9th Mar 2009 08:05 UTC
Apple Numerous irrelevant issues and feelings about them are ventilated in comments on the case. However, there are only two important issues. One is what the law is, the other is what we think the law should be.
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RE[2]: Whose boat is it?
by GCrain on Tue 10th Mar 2009 16:05 UTC in reply to "RE: Whose boat is it?"
GCrain
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2005-07-11

That's an inaccurate comparison. Try this: If you buy 30 Mercury boat engines, you can absolutely install them into any hulls you wish and resell them as 30 complete boats. You can even modify the engines to get them to fit properly. Mercury doesn't have the right to force you to install their engines only on certain brands of hulls... Ditto if Psystar buys 5,000 copies of OSX, they have every legal right to install it on 5,000 computers and resell those computers.

But what about if you modify and possibly compromise the Mercury engines the way you want and them resell them as Mercury engines? Is it your right to be able to do that? What happens when the modified Mercury engine blows up... who's responsible??

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