Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 21st Jul 2008 14:35 UTC, submitted by Thom_Holwerda
Law and Order We covered earlier about Apple suing Psystar the creator of Open Computer. Now we have more details of the complaint . Apple's complaint is now available online (registration required).
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F... rickey Apple
by ciplogic on Mon 21st Jul 2008 14:41 UTC
ciplogic
Member since:
2006-12-22

Apple when Jobs went away to make it's NeXT computer, he was attacked by it's ex-company. And he said lately: how can a big company cannot resist against a 3 person company?

How Apple driven by Steve Jobs cannot innovate in the prices area, as did PyStar and prove that is competitor not a tiran.

Shame Apple, shame!

RE: F... rickey Apple
by ringham on Mon 21st Jul 2008 14:59 in reply to "F... rickey Apple"
ringham Member since:
2006-03-23

Your comment was completely unintelligible.

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RE[2]: F... rickey Apple
by ciplogic on Mon 21st Jul 2008 15:14 in reply to "RE: F... rickey Apple"
ciplogic Member since:
2006-12-22

Yes sorry, you have right.

In 1987, Steve Jobs was booted out from Apple. At that time he start NeXT OS and Next Box.

At the very time, he was attacked in justice by Apple cause he copy many of ideas of Apple brand.
S. Jobs answer was: "It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans." - WikiQuote.org

Right now the same company, but instead S. Jobs to be attacked by Apple, right now he is the mastermind of the attack, did not try to make their product affordable, but instead it attacks the competitors.

They use iPhone, even was a Cisco brand, but they say that is too generic.

For me Apple looks like a behemoth that force you in the same as Microsoft or any monopoly do, but in their "stylish" OS, brand, products.

Shame of them that they not offer alternatives, instead they attack small companies, as did Microsoft with 235 patents to attack Linux.

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RE: F... rickey Apple
by lurch_mojoff on Mon 21st Jul 2008 15:17 in reply to "F... rickey Apple"
lurch_mojoff Member since:
2007-05-12

Shame Apple, shame!


Um, what shame? Why should Apple feel ashamed for defending their rights? If anyone is to be ashamed that are the Psystar folks, because they are profiting from other people's work.

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RE[2]: F... rickey Apple
by ringham on Mon 21st Jul 2008 15:18 in reply to "RE: F... rickey Apple"
ringham Member since:
2006-03-23

Exactly.

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RE[2]: F... rickey Apple
by tupp on Mon 21st Jul 2008 15:55 in reply to "RE: F... rickey Apple"
tupp Member since:
2006-11-12

Why should Apple feel ashamed for defending their rights? If anyone is to be ashamed that are the Psystar folks, because they are profiting from other people's work.


Yes. Because Apple has never ever profited from the work of others... [cough] Xerox... [cough] Braun... [cough] open source developers... [cough] Microsoft... [cough] companies that developed USB... [cough] developers of multi-touch... [cough] list goes on...

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RE[2]: F... rickey Apple
by bryanv on Mon 21st Jul 2008 16:07 in reply to "RE: F... rickey Apple"
bryanv Member since:
2005-08-26

Wow, you're a retard.

I profit from my work.

My boss profits from my work.

My boss's boss profits from my work.

The investors of the company also profit from my work.


To make a sweeping generalization that it's wrong to profit from the work of someone else is outright ignorant. Profiteering itself is not unethical, immoral, or necessarily wrong.

To profit off someone's work without their consent (as is the case here) is unethical, immoral, and an outright jackass thing to do. Perhaps it's even illegal.

But don't go saying it's wrong to profit from the labor of someone else. It's perfectly fine if that person has agreed to it.

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