What Is the Issue in the Psystar Case?
Linked by Nescio on Mon 9th Mar 2009 08:05 UTC
Apple Numerous irrelevant issues and feelings about them are ventilated in comments on the case. However, there are only two important issues. One is what the law is, the other is what we think the law should be.
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alcibiades
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2005-10-12

The thing you're missing is that in the course of acquisition and use of all sorts of computer components, we all make money from each other. We write software - we use IDEs. We assemble parts into proper machines. We install operating systems and software and charge for doing it. We go in and fix malware infected machines, using anti virus software, or disk recovery software. We charge.

You will never get your head around this if you keep thinking it is mainly about Apple. It is not, the issues of principle are about the industry as a whole. The way to think about this is, after you figure out you want Apple to have a given power, figure out what will happen to the industry if everyone has that power, and uses it. Think about MS, think about Adobe, think about hardware vendors, ATI or Intel or nVidia.

Then start thinking about publishers of books, people who make drugs, people who make tools.

Then you'll get a feeling for what really is socially desirable and what's not.

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