Star Psystar Wants to "Reveal" Protection Measures in Leopard
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Oct 2009 22:50 UTC
Law and Order Remember the motions for a summary judgement filed by Apple and Psystar earlier this week? Large parts of them were censored per Apple's request. These censored parts detailed the protection measures Apple put in place in Leopard to prevent it from being installed on non-Apple labelled computers. Psystar filed a motion a few days ago asking the judge to uncensor the information.
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RE: Your assumptions are wrong
by Bobthearch on Sun 18th Oct 2009 20:38 UTC in reply to "Your assumptions are wrong"
Bobthearch
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1. Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. They build and sell hardware that comes with software.

Wrong. Apple makes a fortune selling software (check the Amazon software sales rankings and the Apple financial reports to see for yourself). Apple does not 'make' hardware. A few components, cases and motherboards for example, are designed by Apple and custom-made for them. But most of the parts are standard off-the-shelf components that anyone can purchase.

Every retail box of OS X is an upgrade to the software that already comes pre-installed on a Mac. The software is a full-installable version as a courtesy to the Mac owner, in case a full reinstall of the software is necessary.

Wrong again. OSX retail copies are stand-alone versions of the operating system, and are not labeled nor advertised as "Upgrades."

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