[CoLoCo] OSX, UBUNTU, or Windows... take your pick... a PC that runs them all...

[David Overcash]

You have to figure that Psystar saw this coming when they first created the
OpenPC...  so they probably already had a pretty darn good defense lined up
with a lawyer already attached to it.  I'll be interested to see what the
ruling turns out as.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Andrew wrote:
> > found this today.
> >
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Apple_to_face_off_against_Psystar_in_court/1216152703
> >
> > I'd really like to see how this turns out.
>  From what I can see the law may be on Psystar's side.  In recent
> history the GPL has been the only software license to be fully enforced
> in a court of law, the rest haven't succeeded.  The second is that since
> Apple is now running on Intel hardware and that Psystar is not modifying
> Mac OS X so it runs on their systems then they can sight the legendary
> court case where IBM went after PC clone manufacturers .... and lost.
> That ruling which created for the PC market we know of today could have
> an effect on Apple in this case.  If that happens and Psystar wins then
> you might see Apple clones pop up all over the place just as PC clones
> did back in the day.  I'm no law expert but that's the most likely
> defense Psystar may try to use and with a court ruling that old which
> hasn't been contested .... well, you get the picture.
>
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