Really, nightmare? No one beyond these geek forums probably know about this, and even many of the people on here probably could care less what happens. But if this be sarcasm, then + 1
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Apple Wins Permanent Injunction Against Psystar
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Really, nightmare? No one beyond these geek forums probably know about this, and even many of the people on here probably could care less what happens. But if this be sarcasm, then + 1
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It hasn't even been a year? Wow, seems like this has been dragging on longer than that.
It hasn't even been a year? Wow, seems like this has been dragging on longer than that.
Bye bye psystar. Proof the law works.
We may never know if they had a backer- Apple will find out, but I'm sure the information was produced under a protective order (assuming there was information to produce) in whch case the public will never know unless psystar says who it was.
We may never know if they had a backer- Apple will find out, but I'm sure the information was produced under a protective order (assuming there was information to produce) in whch case the public will never know unless psystar says who it was.
Good riddance. They threatened Apple's business model, and Apple defended it (both figuratively and literally).
If you want to continue enjoying Mac OS X and Apple hardware, keep celebrating when companies like this bite the dust.
If you want to continue enjoying Mac OS X and Apple hardware, keep celebrating when companies like this bite the dust.
Didn't anyone at Apple get anything resembling the following from all of this?
"Gee, maybe some of our customers want a mid-range mini-tower."
Nope, never, whatever. I'll keep using my Core2Quad hackintosh until they wake up. It goes nicely with my actual Macs, but doesn't replace any of them.
"Gee, maybe some of our customers want a mid-range mini-tower."
Nope, never, whatever. I'll keep using my Core2Quad hackintosh until they wake up. It goes nicely with my actual Macs, but doesn't replace any of them.
Yeah, that must be why Psystar sold so many. Oh, wait....
And I, too, want to go watch Frost/Nixon again.
I have only briefly looked at that lawsuit and some of the details and I can see many gray areas that I don't have the education,knowledge nor expertise to make any kind of educated decision or opinion of my own.
I only followed the Pystar status out of curiosity and because of my own past with what IMO appeared to be flagrant miss-use of a copyright etc.
Except there is no "new law" being created here.
I'm thinking Elevation Partners . . .
There were no financial backers
These guys couldn't pay their legal bills. This was so obviously illegal, no "big company" would risk associating their name with it or financially support it.
These were just two guys with no sense of the law trying to make money off of Apple.
These guys couldn't pay their legal bills. This was so obviously illegal, no "big company" would risk associating their name with it or financially support it.
These were just two guys with no sense of the law trying to make money off of Apple.
Shh. The "Psystar was a legitimate competitor to Apple, and not like a guy 'competing' with Best Buy by selling stolen car radios out of the back of a truck" crowd thinks there was some point of legal novelty here.
All this does is prevent Psystar from copying OSX or modifying OSX (i.e. copyright, not anti-trust). How does that mean "the end" of Psystar or anything else? It only deals with them modifying OSX early on. I really think these articles jump to conclusions.
What's so "high-level" about the court cases? Seemed pretty amateurish to me. Drafting a declaratory judgment complaint isn't rocket science.
No. The injunction prevents them from inducing, contributing to, or having anything to do with installing OS X on non Apple computers.
Well, now RebelEFI will just become Open Source and be the new XPostfacto-like software...
Some stuff is here:
https://foundry.psystar.com/
Other details:
http://wiki.psystar.com/index.php/Rebel_EFI_Wiki
Download version 0.88, before it disappears:
http://cdn.psystar.com/rebelefi_latest.iso
Some stuff is here:
https://foundry.psystar.com/
Other details:
http://wiki.psystar.com/index.php/Rebel_EFI_Wiki
Download version 0.88, before it disappears:
http://cdn.psystar.com/rebelefi_latest.iso
Yes, copyright infringement is the sine qua non of Psystar's business. See? I just wrote that in no time at all - just like Psystar's D.J. complaint was written in no time at all, and without evil microsoft/dell/Blackwater funding.