“Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar traded barbs last week in federal court as they simultaneously asked a judge to end the case that began more than 15 months ago,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“Florida-based Psystar took the unusual step of conceding to an injunction, saying that it would agree to stop using Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, on the machines it sells,” Keizer reports.
“The two companies have been battling since July 2008, when Apple sued Psystar over the latter’s practice of installing Apple’s Mac OS X operating system on generic Intel-based computers,” Keizer reports.
“Psystar said it would agree to an injunction preventing it from using Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard. ‘Psystar will happily submit to an appropriately tailored injunction … limited to Psystar’s allegedly illegal activities involving OS X Leopard, since it is only OS X Leopard that this case concerns. Since neither Psystar nor Apple sells OS X Leopard any longer, it is no great burden for Psystar to agree to such an injunction,’ its lawyers said in the competing Psystar motion,” Keizer reports. “That concession, however, is meaningless, since as Psystar noted, it now sells Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, with its computers.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: When all is said and done, the amount of bad karma amassed by these illiterate wiseasses at Psystar and their unprofessional amateur-hour “legal team” will be enough to blow a hole in Florida bigger than Okeechobee. Lake Psystar is bound to be filed with raw sewage, no doubt.
…why Apple sells OSX ?
OSX comes with every Macintosh.
Cant they start simply an update program, to let their customers
update their Macs?
Then all the discussion is off the table, or not?
@ I dont understand…
> Cant they start simply an update program, to let their customers update their Macs?
Good point. However, in a major release, most of the previous system needs to be replaced. So that would be a 3 to 4GB download, probably. That would still be difficult for a lot of customers, even if they have some type of broadband. And it would certainly tax Apple’s servers on release day, with a level of load that is well above the operating norm.
But I think Apple is moving in that direction. With Snow Leopard, you can initiate and run the upgrade process while started up normally. Before, with Leopard and earlier, you had to restart from the disc in the optical drive and run the installation from there. You can still install Snow Leopard the old-school way, by starting up from the disc (I did it that way), but I think most users inserted the disc while booted up normally and ran the upgrade from there.
I think the “new way” with Snow Leopard is the first step in being able to pay for, download, and apply a major system update over the existing system. But Apple would still have to provide a disc-based method, because not everyone will be able (or willing) to download a multi-GB installer. And some people will need to obtain or create a bootable disc, if they need to do a clean installation on a newly erased internal drive
@ Ken1w
youre right about download volumen.
But I thought a program that let customers order an “update” DVD, for example.
Maybe one need to register the mac to have this option, or with somekind of order-code related to the mac- purchase.
I think there are enough ways to find a good solution.
Selling OSX is a bad way, I think.
There will be everytime people who want to make profit with Apples developement. And this has to stop.
“Don’t get why your Poll gives Rush Limbaugh as an answer.
Hopefully you added it only to tweak some people, but on the whole it made no sense.”
Just libs trying to tweak some of us.
MDN, why no Obama in the poll?
it’s not over ’til the fat lady sings.
I’ve always been very suspicious of people who know little about the law making suppositions they cannot support…. like the editors here at MDN….
Has it every occurred to ANYONE that Pystar may actually have a real case? And that despite Apple’s high price legal team, Apple may loose?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not in favor of OSX on all this junk hardware, but that doesn’t change the fact that maybe, just maybe, Pystar will be victorious, and be allowed to sell hardware with OSX installed.
Pystar could win this case full and wide if they imply their tactic of installing Mac OSX on the PC is only affected on the Mach and BSD kernel which is Open Source codes. This will be interesting to see what happens. I’m not saying I’m all for these a$$hats but in all honesty lets hope this isn’t the case. But Apple will need to show proof that Pystar is violating the DMCA law by circumventing the modification of the codes to install on PCs is their only strong case besides violating the EULA.
I.B.M. no one stands to make as much money off Apple if this continues nevermind the pride factor. It’s plain for me to see. Go Intel, fine, we’ll make you regret it. You’ll come back, but it’s going to cost you. The company is big enough that we will never see the connection between some subsidiary in china and psystar. PPC could still return, albeit under a dark cloud.
The Psystar blahblah goes on and on ad nauseam.
What’s really intriguing is watching what blithering idiots buy their anti-Mac crapware and why. The usual term is ‘fly-by-night’, referring to vampiric companies that swoop in, suck your blood, then swoop off to find victims elsewhere.
Enjoy your Psystar PC, suckees.