Apple, Psystar strike a deal

What has everyone gone stupid? OSX is Apple's intellectual property. When you buy a mac you get the right to use it. OSX is software just like any other app. You do not own it, you buy the right to use it and agree to their terms of usage. It is designed and the rights sold to be used on THEIR hardware, this is not windows people. You put it on some other hardware and you violate that agreement, plain and simple. Pystar violated that agreement and had no right to install it, market it, or sell it. It is no different than when you buy a CD or DVD. You do NOT OWN the music or the movie but the right to view it or listen to it. Copy it and sell it and you are just as much of a crook as Pystar. Trying to justify thievery by crying foul is immature and just plain stupid. I hope the courts slam pystar and set the precident that if you want to be a thief, you will go to jail.

One last thought, you cheap pc bastards, if cheaper was better we would all be driving Yugos.

Let me get this straight...Psystar infringed Apple's patents so Apple sued them, them Psystar counter-sued them for anti-trust. Isn't that like someone robbing a bank, getting arrested and then taking the security guards to court for trying to defend the safe?

"Get 'em while they're hot!"

People will ignore what I'm about to write because it is more fun and entertaining to speculate on whether Apple is caving, whether Steve Jobs is evil, whether this means Psystar is right, whether this means that somebody's testicles have shrunken or grown, and I am glad they will ignore it because I find such speculation an agreeable waste of time on a Monday morning, BUT...

The FACT is that this kind of mediation is nearly ALWAYS done prior to cases like this in many jurisdictions, including the one that this case was filed in. It is practically mandatory. It would be a surprise if it didn't happen, no matter who the case involved, big or small, famous or not famous, precedent-setting or non-precedent setting. It is part of the normal legal process.

If the mediation result is unsatisfactory to either party, the lawsuit will continue. This will also lead to more ridiculous and entertaining speculation, all of which will be equally baseless.

So, personally, I look forward to either Apple or Psystar rejecting whatever the result of this ROUTINE element of the legal process turns out to be, because with the Presidential race, the failing economy, the imminent restart of the Large Hadron Collider, and the new season of 30 Rock all coming up over the next few months, there's very little out there to hold my attention.

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Being ordered to arbitration by a judge is a far cry from "striking a deal."

what??!!?? For apple to agree to something like this, they HAD to have been running scared. This is not apple's style at all.

I guess Apple didn't want to take the chance that they might be ruled against.

I smell some Psystar buytout from Apple...