“In an amended complaint submitted last Thursday, Psystar asked U.S. District Court Judge William Hoeveler to rule that it is legally allowed to sell machines with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, pre-installed,” Keizer reports.
“‘A declaration by this Court of the legal rights of Apple and Psystar with respect to Psystar computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard would clarify, to put it bluntly, the legality of Psystar’s business — and would remove the substantial negative effect on Psystar’s business of continued uncertainty and legal wrangling between Apple and Psystar,’ the Florida clone maker said in the revised complaint filed in Miami, Fla. federal court,” Keizer reports.
“Psystar wants Hoeveler to make Apple stop saying that it’s illegal for Psystar to purchase Snow Leopard on the open market, then use those copies to install the operating system on the computers it sells,” Keizer reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Crack is wack.
Yes.
Everyone knows Apple should have been saying “Differently” all along.
Looks like apple is keeping consistent with their strategies: first palm, now psystar. Or was psystar first?
So if I rob a convenience store, can I go before a judge and ask him to declare theft legal?
Sounds like someone is trying to pull a fast one on the judge.
“While we are waiting for this trial to start, can you rule ahead of time that we are going to win? It’s no big deal, just a little ruling.”
“Psystar wants Hoeveler to make Apple stop saying that it’s illegal for Psystar to purchase Snow Leopard on the open market…”
I want him to say it too… preferably while wearing a clown nose and giant shoes.
Think they are trying to short cut the system. Hey, let us see if the judge “thinks” it is a legal issue.
Hey, we can save a lot of money if says yes.
It is a inexpensive way to test those muddy grey waters.
Mikey is rubbing his hands together.
These asshats will be out of business in 6 months. Anywho, the US court system is a fscking joke, and the asshat judges are worse.
@theloniousMac
In the past, I have often considered a few of your comments as suspect if not outright Win Trollish, but this one, I have to admit, is quite funny.
Psystar’s mantra:
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” — Alice from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”
WOW. The judge better come down hard on these lawyers. They are starting to make a mockery of the judicial system and wasting time that the judge could be using on “real” trials.
Maybe Psystar is running outa cash and needs things done before they legally can be.
Apple could fix a lot of this by selling SL as an Upgrade and have A version available on its online store for Authorized OEMs at $10,000 per license as they \ no one but Apple is authorized they would be in the wrong end of story.
The fact that the judge is even entertaining this infantile garbage instead of throwing the book at Pystar, is a mockery and a dumbing down of the entire judicial system.
This judge had better shit or get off the pot fast before history sights this case as the culprit that ended all rhyme and reason.
“Crack is wack.”
Except when it’s a hottie spread eagle in front of you.
I am thinking of starting a car company that uses Ferrari engines. If I put them in my own bodies that is legal, right Psystar?
@ Anim8me2
Yup, and if your customers have a problem you can direct them to their nearest Ferrari dealership. The customers are then free to bitch at how awful Ferrari engines are.
They’re joking right? Isn’t that the whole point of this trial? That Psystar “legal team” is really getting a bit desperate.
When is this trial going to start? Why does this take so long?
It seems totally ridiculous that someone can steal a product and not be liable for it for years.
@HMCIV
….clown nose…….
That is hilarious ROTFLMAO
Actually Ferrari may not have a problem with that. It all depends what kind of a contract you agree to when you buy the engine. But you’re not going to get the engine for the $29 upgrade price for upgrading the engine in your existing Ferrari. You’re going to pay the full price of the engine. Probably $50,000 to $100,000.
Again, it seems like they will do whatever it takes to push the point forward and harass Apple in order to attack their business model, even if it means insanity.
There is no other industry where Operating Systems can be swapped around on various hardware from different corporations. It’s just a byproduct of Microsoft keeping the box assemblers subservient and helpless without their own OS. It’s not how things are meant to work. It’s not how the computer industry started.
Steve Jobs knows this, and that’s why he keeps hardware and software tied together. It creates a superior product. And Psystar knows this too, and that’s why they are trying to break Apple’s model.
tied together wtf r u talking about? If they were truly tied together then you would not be able to run it on a PC in the first place..
From the article:
“The items of damage to Psystar include damage to Psystar’s business reputation and to the reputation of its products and sales lost that could have been made absent Apple’s attempts to restrict Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Macintoshes.”
..damage to Psystar’s reputation?? LOOOLLLLLLLLL I mean R-E-A-L-L-Y
Please judge could just throw away the concept of OEM software. We would be ever so grateful.
There actually asking the judge to rule that VARs can pre-install software without an OEM license.