A good question. The answer is: Psystar can thank the US court system. A quote from the court filings:
Very nice summary. I will make a note of these dates and keep track of things as the time draws nearer. Thank you!
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@ Digital Skunk:
You're right. And just like in
real life, there's a lot of screaming "me! me!"s on here who are just plain stupid little s***s. MacRumors is truly a reflection of the so-called "meatspace," since far too often high proportions of people "in real life" behave and act (in public, no less!) exactly the same way.
Obviously, Psystar was founded by people who, at a
minimum, felt they could "just do" what they wanted. Put this down to ignorance, arrogance or pig-headed stupidity, it really doesn't matter. Psystar doesn't either civilly or legally have the right to do what they're doing because, frankly, they didn't go about it the correct way. It really saddens me to see how many people on here prove their complete ignorance when they try to argue that Psystar somehow has the right to, or is justified in what they're doing, whether or not they try to argue on the grounds that Apple's "not having done X or Y or Z" somehow through divine transmogrification of morality legitimizes it or gives Psystar the right.
I would love to see Apple put premium but more reasonable pricing on their laptop line-up. I'd love to see Apple go back to making mini-towers. However, they aren't doing any of those things, and so, in these tough economic times (I speak personally in this regard) I have done the necessary thing and bought hardware from someone else. However, you don't see me on here just carrying on like some little child.
The sheer lack of critical thinking and reasoning skills on this board really saddens me; it really, truly does. You have options, people, and just sitting here belly-aching about what Apple has or hasn't done with their product line-up proves your own stupidity, lack of dignity and self-respect.
If you don't like Apple's business decisions -- and yes, I "get" there are holes in their product line-up -- then why the h#ll don't you go back to using Windows? You can have all the hardware choice in the world then. Don't like what's available? Then build your own d*mn box!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If you want Apple to change their business policies, you cannot simply sit on your @ss. Get up and go do something about it! Start a letter-writing campaign! Build a Hackintosh and send Apple an email telling them they got an OS sale out of you, but not a hardware one. Do something that's actually productive, but don't just keep coming back here to MacRumors to bitch and whine and complain about how Apple's somehow screwing you or other computer users. More complaints and irrational negativity we don't need -- there's enough of that out there in the real world. And frankly, I'm getting a bit tired of seeing one thread after another on MR devolve into nothing but just griping.
