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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It should also be noted that it is in the legalities as well. Consider this news article: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...6&pageNumber=1
In a motion filed Monday, Apple asked Alsup to grant a permanent injunction that would force Psystar to stop selling any computer bundled with Mac OS X; using, selling or even owning software that lets it crack Apple's OS encryption key to trick Mac OS X to run on non-Apple hardware; and "inducing, aiding or inducing others in infringing Apple's copyright."
"Psystar's whole business is premised on stealing from Apple," the motion read. "Psystar pirates Apple's software, circumvents Apple's technological protection measures and illegally benefits from the good will and reputation Apple has built. Psystar's conduct, if permitted to continue, will both tarnish Apple's reputation for excellence and lead to the proliferation of copycats who also will free ride on Apple's investments, infringe Apple's intellectual property rights and cause further irreparable injury." This is in a legal brief, both stealing and pirating are words that are used by a company that many around here claim are against copyright.
Dale |
And Apple's whole business is premised on stealing from the open-source community. It's the secret the sales staff don't want you to know, but...
BSD, which is the microkernel (some would say it's more than that since the filesystem exists in kernelspace and not userspace);
Darwin, which is a majority of what sits on top of the BSD code;
QT, which was used for designing the GUI; and
IOKit, which was used to make it all play nicely together;
are
all open-source. Just as the BSD license allows Apple to tweak BSD code to run on certain hardware (and profit from it in this case), the same license allows others to mod that same code for the same reason. Apple does
not own the rights to either Darwin or BSD. Even if you ignore all that (which many iPeople do)...
"2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use. This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. You agree not to install, use
or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one
computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time."
I haven't seen an actual Psystar box; does it have an Apple logo on it somewhere? If so, Apple is essentially asking for an injunction on its own EULA.
DISCLAIMER: I've used Macs. I have no problem with Macs. I have a problem with a company sending an armada of lawyers every time Steve Jobs' ego gets a bruise by someone who can put two and two together, while at the same time a majority of "his" OS was "borrowed" from the open-source community.