Comments on: Lawyers, money needed for Psystar's legal battle

They can probably skip the guns, but Psystar faces an uphill--if not impossible--legal battle if Apple takes action to halt the sales of Open Computers running Mac OS X.

[linadragon]

To 330Andy

Thats just it though..... Apple doesnt make their own hardware look under the hood really... Hardware is designed "for mac" but its still made by third party entities like Nvidia , AMD/ATI (same company these days) and Intel.... The fact that the Graphics card 8800GT costs about 70 - 80 bucks higher for a mac is odd to but yeah...

The Mac's could easily just drop 400 bucks or so in price.... What Steve Jobs needs to realize is that alot of us want to use a Mac but for people like me or many others that build our own systems and the like..... The Mac's are just far to pricey in comparison...

[Fil0403]

"How much longer can Psystar get away with selling Open Computers?"

Probably not too long, I would say, but a point was already made (and the prove of that is that we're here discussing it for weeks already): when everybody seems to complain about Vista's EULA and Microsoft's practices, we realize that Mac OS X's EULA and Apple's practices (at least from a certain point of view) can actually be even worse (read more anti-competitive).


"Do you buy a Mac because of the software, or because of the hardware?"

I don't at all (I'm an unbiased tech-savvy computer science graduate :-P), but I can say with 99% certainty that the few people who do, in reality, do it neither because of the software or because of the hardware, but simply because it's from Apple (or, if you prefer, because it has a logo a bitten apple).


In the end, IMHO, bottom line is that Apple's OS market share will continue to be insignificant anyway compared to Windows' (notwithstanding Apple sheeps continuously changing their perceptio of Apple's OS market share depending on how convenient it is for each particular situation: on one hand, it's very big and significant and will only continue to grow fast, on the other hand it's insignificant for anyone to be able to charge Apple of any monopolistic or anti-competitive practices).

[Louix94]

They are selling a modded OS MADE to run on non-Apple hardware.
If you have a look at how OSx86 works, you'll find that there are modded kernel extensions, such as graphics and audio, which probably falls under this part of the EULA: "Except as and only to the extent permitted by applicable licensing terms governing use of the Open-Sourced Components, or by applicable law, you may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, or create derivative works of the Apple Software or any part thereof."
Plus, they are also stealing OSx86 from the hackers that made it possible by not crediting them and SELLING FOR PROFIT their work which is downloadable of the Internet for FREE(the hackers do suggest, even though not viable, that if you download the disk image of OSx86, to go out and buy a valid Mac OS X license to make up for downloading Mac OS X).

[tubageekster]

A mac os 10 monopoly? That is way too specific. I could start a company that sells pink and teal chairs, and nobody has sold pink and teal chairs before so I don't have any competition. Does that mean I have a pink and teal chair monopoly, even though many other companies make chairs? That is just weird.