Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Sep 2009 08:44 UTC, submitted by Cytor
There are several options out there if you wan to run Mac OS X on your non-Apple labelled computer, but one of them appears to be in serious trouble. It has been uncovered that the EFI-X module is nothing more than a USB stick with a DRM chip, with code from the hackintosh community on it - without attribution. On top of that, its firmware update utility uses LGPL code - again, without attribution.
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And with a license violation in place, I doubt there would have been a chanve for ASEM to win this.
On the other Hand, ASEM probably payed the copyright holders enough to make a lawsuit go away.
That is true in the US as well. However, in the US at least the lawyers still need to be paid first before they will take the case. "
May Civil Suite lawyers work on contingency - i.e. they don't get paid unless they win, and then it's usually a percentage of what is awarded (likely a percentage of what is actually collected since may awards are not collected due to bankruptcy, appeals, refusal to pay, etc). Sadly, just b/c you win the judgement doesn't mean you actually get the money awarded.
Also, it is not necessarily true that court costs, attorney costs, etc. get covered by the loser - only if you ask for them in the lawsuit or file a separate lawsuit for them and win on that point as well.