Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Aug 2009 22:05 UTC
The week isn't even over yet, and we already have another instalment in the Apple-Psystar soap opera. Psystar has filed a new lawsuit in the Florida Southern District Court in Miami, asking for an injunction and damages because of Apple's "anticompetitive attempts to tie Mac OS X Snow Leopard to its Macintosh line of computers".
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Forgive my ignorance as I'm not a lawyer. It seems to me that Psystar hasn't a leg to stand on for either of these ongoing lawsuits. Apple produces a computer and the OS to operate it. Similarly, Nokia produces phones and bought an OS (Symbian) to run on it. Likewise for myriad other devices, appliances, etc., that contain operating code created or purchased by their respective manufacturers. Motorola cannot sue Nokia because Nokia's software doesn't run on Motorola's phones. While some individuals may somehow shoehorn Nokia's software onto a Motorola phone, Nokia doesn't have to sanction or support those devices (or even know about them.) But, Joe Blow shouldn't be able to sell Motorola phone's pre-hacked with Nokia's software out of his basement for profit. I realize this is a convoluted analogy but I'm trying to wrap my mind around how Psystar thinks it has a chance in hell of winning on either account. Most likely, the end result will be that Apple simply yanks its shrink-wrapped copies of OS-X from retail shelves and only registered owners of Macs will be able to purchase upgrades from that point on. Of course hackers will always be able to obtain copies for their "Hackintoshes" but Psystar will be once and for all out of the game.