Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 15th Jul 2008 17:45 UTC, submitted by Thom_Holwerda
Apple has filed a suit (more details) on July 3rd against Psystar in the northern district of California. Psystar dubbed its cheap Mac Clone as Open Computer and started shipping them around April of this year.
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RE: This is not just about the EULA
by Adurbe on Wed 16th Jul 2008 14:58
in reply to "This is not just about the EULA"
Member since:2005-07-06
We host windows updates on our update server
We are not illigally distributing, same argument can be used by pystar
edit:- apple offer this feature as part of their server http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/client.html
Edited 2008-07-16 15:00 UTC
RE[2]: This is not just about the EULA
by Mage66 on Wed 16th Jul 2008 15:09
in reply to "RE: This is not just about the EULA"
Member since:2005-07-11
We host windows updates on our update server We are not illigally distributing, same argument can be used by pystar edit:- apple offer this feature as part of their server http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/client.html
Apple and Microsoft license others to host UNMODIFIED copies of their updaters. Psystar is modifying the updaters when they break their "Open Computers".
Psystar is violating the license.
Member since:
2006-11-21
Psystar actually hosts security updates from Apple and redistributes these to their customers.
No matter how you look at it, this is clear copyright infringement. Unless specifically granted by a license, redistribution of any copyrighted product is not permitted.
In the end Psystar probably used the OS X computers to get publicity for their other computers which nobody would ever have heard of otherwise. Whether it was worth it or not, depends on how much they have to pay in damages to Apple.