“After considering Apple’s motion to lift the automatic stay that put its lawsuit against Mac cloner Psystar on hold, bankruptcy judge Robert Mark has ordered the stay lifted. This will allow the legal process to move forward towards the trial between Apple and Psystar, which is set to begin this November.”
Good. I want to see a conclusion. I pray that Psystar wins this one – not because I like Psystar or even hate Apple – I hate the type of weenies making the decisions at Apple.
A Mac is a PC with a different OS and a different case ( albeit both are, IMHO, nice ).
–The loon
Its a very messy case though, lots of opportunity for deciding it (against Psystar) on other grounds than whether Apple can restrict retail copies of its OS – which is the interesting question to us. Psystar did so much else that was dubious by way of method, that they will probably lose, without the interesting question being tested.
Now if Apple were to sue EFI-X, PearC, Quo, freedompc.co.uk, we might get a decision on the important question. But, a personal bet, they probably have too much sense to sue these guys. Psystar has opened the thing up, but they are probably not going to profit from it.
PSystar changes it mind and dump MacOSX for xBSD OpenSolaris and QNX. They are more advanced. Especially OpenSolaris and QNX are commercially supported and QNX is nonfree like MacOSX. I see no reason selling Apple when oranges are more advanced.
One thing that’s puzzled me all along is why do Apple sell complete retail versions of OS X at all? Why not just sell upgrades, where each upgrade excludes components that were present in the previous (or an earlier) version of the OS. After all, it’s not like there are any Mac users who don’t already have a copy installed.
If Apple had done this, it surely would have made it harder for a company like Psystar to make their case.
As you can no doubt tell, I’m not an OS X user, and there’s probably something obvious that I’m forgetting.
It’s what they seem to be doing now with Snow Leopard. There’s an upgrade copy for Leopard owners, and a box-set (iLife+iWork+Snow Leopard) for Tiger users.
There’s no stand alone retail copy announced.
Hard to say since it’s only for Pre-Sale as yet, but this does not appear an upgrade package:
http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard/dp/B001AMHWP8/ref=sr_1_…