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Apple Wins Permanent Injunction Against Psystar

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.
 
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.
 
zackkitzmiller said:
Isn't it obvious who the backer was? It was Steve Jobs.

He needed to created a fake company and use that company to create new law that favors him, in the unlikely case that someone started to sell Mac clones.
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If that was indeed the case, holy crap. All legal hell would break loose.
 
insanity

zackkitzmiller said:
Isn't it obvious who the backer was? It was Steve Jobs.

He needed to created a fake company and use that company to create new law that favors him, in the unlikely case that someone started to sell Mac clones.
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That is such a preposterous claim, it just might be true!
 
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.
 
Arcady said:
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.
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Yeah, all 781 of them that Psystar sold.

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Arcady said:
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."
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Yeah, that must be why Psystar sold so many. Oh, wait....

And I, too, want to go watch Frost/Nixon again.
 
diamond.g said:
Out of curiosity do you side with Apple or Nokia in their lawsuit.
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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.
 
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.
 
*LTD* said:
Except there is no "new law" being created here.
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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.
 
djgamble said:
No idea 'ay? They had millions though... enough to mount some pretty high-level court cases across multiple states, and also to keep manufacturing, marketing and presumably selling machines (despite not making a cent from their company.)

My guess is that somebody must have helped them...
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My money's on The Woz.

😉
 
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.
 
djgamble said:
No idea 'ay? They had millions though... enough to mount some pretty high-level court cases across multiple states, and also to keep manufacturing, marketing and presumably selling machines (despite not making a cent from their company.)

My guess is that somebody must have helped them...
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What's so "high-level" about the court cases? Seemed pretty amateurish to me. Drafting a declaratory judgment complaint isn't rocket science.
 
MagnusVonMagnum said:
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.
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No. The injunction prevents them from inducing, contributing to, or having anything to do with installing OS X on non Apple computers.
 
*LTD* said:
In other words, Psystar's entire raison d'etre.
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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.
 
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