We already had the news about Psystar's Rebel EFI possibly including open source code, but now we have another story which doesn't really seem to bode well for the small Florida clone maker. Gizmodo has a story on an interesting customer experience.
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Member since:2005-06-29
I couldn't agree more. My position has been that the hackintosh community has been largely ignored by Apple because they do it for fun. They aren't hurting Apple's margins all that much, and they aren't trying to make a buck from their efforts.
However, I don't consider Psystar to be a part of the hackintosh community at all. They take what the community has done, try to make a profit off of it, and that only hurts all of us in the end. Sure, it would be nice if their actions had the side effect of rendering the Apple SLAs unenforceable, but that's a pipe dream really. They are eventually going to lose their case or settle out of court. After that, Apple may start paying more attention to the hackintosh community--and not in a nice way--so they can prevent another Psystar from popping up.
Honestly, I wish they had never started their silly lawsuits but if not them, someone else would have done the same. Greed is a powerful motivator after all.
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2006-07-16
I'm sorry, but anyone foolish enough to try to purchase some piece of shady hardware nonsense from a company embroiled in a major lawsuit with the company (Apple) whos software it's trying to sell (illegally?) in order to run said software in a manner inconsistent with its license terms is asking to be ripped off. I mean, come on, what would you expect? While I'm all for running OS-X on generic PCs, Psystar is trying to have its cake and eat it too. Look for this company to be squashed like a roach.