Star Psystar Asks Judge to Rule Its Business Is Legitimate
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 10:13 UTC
Law and Order While the Apple v. Psystar case is currently on hold until the hearing regarding the motions for a summary judgement takes place (November 12) the Psystar v. Apple case (still with me?) is only just beginning. Psystar has amended its original complaint in this second lawsuit, asking the judge to order Apple to cease calling Psystar's business "illegal", claiming it hurts the clone maker financially.
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RE[8]: Not OSnews, PSnews
by DrillSgt on Wed 4th Nov 2009 18:07 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: Not OSnews, PSnews"
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Actually, in many cases, they just sued the owner of the computer without making any effort to determine if the computer is used by other people and if one of them could have done the actual uploading. And that's when they weren't trying to sue dead people, or hundreds of John Does en masse.


Very true.

If so, there's an extraordinarily easy work-around: Psystar could simply hold off installing OS X on a PC until after it's been purchased, which would let them argue that they're just acting on behalf of the customer. If it's legal for support techs to install software for customers, then there should be no problem with Psystar installing OS X on for their customers.

Or if that doesn't fly, they could just ship the hardware and the OS X DVD together, along with a printout of some basic installation instructions. The OS X install is so dumbed-down that a gerbil could probably manage it.


That is correct. In actuality, that is how the hackintosh maker in California is doing it. I forget the name.

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