This Apple-Psystar business sure is hotting up! Both Apple and Psystar have asked for summary judgments based on what they believe to be What’s Going On. Such an action would avoid a pesky trial, which would necessarily costs both companies a whole lot of money.
Apple wants Psystar to be found guilty of copyright infringement and for violating the DMCA.
Psytar wants Apple’s case thrown out because it says hasn’t violated a single thing. Its evidence? Parts of the EULA found in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, as well as part of a Phil Schiller deposition.
Psystar, you’ll recall, is that company that sells computers pre-loaded with Mac OS X. Apple says that doing such a thing is a violation of the rights of man and of the citizen.
If the judge doesn’t issue a summary judgement in the favor of either Apple or Psystar, then we’ll be looking at a trial, and we all know that trials are treated as circuses in this country.
1) Motions for summary judgment are common, if not routine. Hardly newsworthy.
2) We do have the worst legal system in the world, except for all the others of course. I think before you go criticizing the US courts, you should probably understand a little more about them. Three years of law school should be penance enough.
“They shouldn’t be required to allow it to run on any PC just because they managed to create an outstanding OS that is the envy of the desktop computing world.”
Wow, the Apple fanboys on that forum are pathetic…
Not to mention that he is completely missing the point that no, they WON’T be required at all to support non-Apple systems, they just can’t do anything to somebody who chooses to do so.
I know its unlikely, but I am really hoping that Psystar wins. You say your OS is the best in the world Apple? Fine, put your money where your mouth is and lets see it run on as many computers that run Windows.
I will gladly build a new PC and dualboot Windows and MACOS instead of just using Windows if I legally could.
I find a great app!
Check it! Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327705750&mt=8
I really hope Pystar wins this one. Apple should not be required to sell their operating system to PC makers, however there should be nothing that prevents one from using the Mac OS on a non-Apple computer. Apple can still make money by selling their OS a la carte. What Apple is currently doing is very monopolistic, and that is just as illegal as what Pystar is doing, if not more.