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Psystar Scores Rare Win in Legal Battle against Apple

Posted 02/09/09 at 06:32:38 PM  by Pulkit Chandna

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Legally besieged Mac clone maker Psystar has registered its first legal victory against Apple. U.S District Court Judge William Alsup has given the permission necessary for Psystar to continue its countersuit. The judge lent his assent to those revisions to the countersuit that had been suggested by Psystar after its antitrust charges against Apple were dismissed in November 2008.

Now Apple will have to defend itself against charges pertaining to copyright misuse. “Moreover, if established, misuse would bar enforcement (for the period of misuse) not only as to defendants who are actually party to the challenged license but also as to potential defendants not themselves injured by the misuse who may have similar interests,” Alsup said on Friday. The court’s latest fiat has rekindled Psystar’s hopes of surviving its legal ordeal upon which its actual survival hinges.

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TAGS: apple, OS X, legal, Judge, psystar, clone, mac clone, order, countersuit, copyright misuse
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avatarQuad boot?

Submitted by JDorfler on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 8:27am

Hmmm, maybe this will open up OS X to be legally installed on "PC" hardware.  (I know, Mac guts are PC guts, just specially selected PC guts to keep OS X programming easier.)  Anyway, be nice to quad boot just b/c I can. 

 

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avatarinteresting ... who buys

Submitted by Khaled on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 1:55am

interesting ... who buys those psystars anyway, building a hackintosh is better ... 

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avatarYawn these guys build

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 6:15pm

Yawn these guys build computers with Intel Extreme Crappy Graphics IGP.No gaming going on here. I can build a way better HackInTosh than these guys can but what's the purpose really? To play like the 3games that came out 3years ago that only now is being released for the Mac?

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avataractually aren't they know

Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 6:38pm

actually aren't they know for replicatingthe IMac design not putting mac OS on PCs?

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avatarhttp://www.psystar.com/ Look

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 7:36pm

http://www.psystar.com/ Look for yourself. Looks like they have a little bit of everything. When they first started building Mac Clones they were crap and looked like crap too. Looks like they got a little bit better at it. But still were talking about Crap OSX I mean Mac OSX.

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avatarI really didn't think they

Submitted by mlee19 on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 5:13pm

I really didn't think they had a chance but this is GREAT news!! Psystar 1 apple 0

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avatarCrap OS X my @ss!

Submitted by Zeroblizzard on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 4:08am

This is good for competition. I would love to see Apple actually competing with people on hardware fronts. Maybe they should pull an Intel and start licensing a "real" MAC OS X.

 

"Crap OS X"? really? I don't want to start a flame/trolling war, so let's not go into the many problems with both operating system. My opinion is that OS X is better for file managing/basic editing.  Yours is that OS X sucks, but keep that to yourself. 

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avatarWell it does suck. For

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:41am

Well it does suck. For gaming though. As an OS it's pretty good it's just not suited for gaming like Windows is. It wasn't designed from the outset to be great for gaming like what MS tells us Windows is. There is no Mac Live you know.

So yeah I hate flaming wars but I clarify my judgement for others. As a Nerd MacOS is awsome ever since they embraced Unix/Linux. When I experimented with Hacintosh it reminded me more of a Linux Distro than like installing Windows. And I do mess around with Linux I've got a triple boot with Win7 64 and Ubuntu 8.10 64. But as I said I require an OS that I'm going to use alot to be friendly to gaming and Windows does that for me. If it were the other way around I would be hating on MS and loving on Mac but it's not and I am.;) 

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avatarApple have always overpriced

Submitted by yodasoda on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 9:01am

Apple have always overpriced their
computers.  If Mac was the only player in the game we would still be running
powerpc's and computers would cost like 10000$.  Mac needs to learn to
soe not just to reap. And their OS is based originally on an idea they
themselves took from Xerox.  They profited off an open source idea but
are totally closed source. This is unfair to poorer ppl who cant afford
2 computers. Face it apple, you make nice displays and keyboards and
thats it HW wise.

  It is not fair that all windows stuff can run on a mac but not the other way around.

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