Psystar to pursue OEM licensing program despite legal woes

actually no, the DMCA prohibits the very functions of the boot loader. making what they are doing illegal. Regardless of whether you believe that First Sale applies to software or not.

No, not a troll. I'm a human and an avid Mac user. All of my points were valid and some still are. The G4s I owned had massive logic board problems, there are thousands of posts on the trackpad being too responsive in the unibody, and we pay a premium for design over function. Granted, I love Apple's products, but Apple limits what their software can do by limiting our hardware choices. Case in point, again: Where's my tablet? It's been years and I'm still waiting.

yep. it was information freely given with the caveat that no one could use it without substantial change and make a profit from. much like the BSD that Apple used as part of the base for Mac OSX (adding their own work as well).

And apparently said community has contact Psystar over this usage issue before. I'm sure they will be happy to know that Apple is tired of the dancing and as filed for a summary judgement in the new Snow Leopard case. And after they get it, they will likely use it to try to get a summary judgement in the original Florida case. And have it established once in for all that no one has the right to clone Macs until Apple decides to restart that program themselves, even if they never do.

you do realize that the clone wars was severely crippling to apple and set them back substantially. This could help end apple if they actually allowed it again. Apple is a hardware company, the software is just a perk and subsidized by the hardware. Their business model is not for us to decide, it's for them. They did it the way everyone wanted once and it was detrimental.

yeah. that will be awesome. just the other day i was thinking :

'you know what would be fantastic? $300 OS upgrades... and the fun and good times to be had by all with the addition of serial number authentication!'

the only people that think this is a good idea are the same people that wouldn't actually be hassled by this to begin with. the people that will be hassled the most would be the people that actually buy their software.

or the addition of actual hardware locking on the OS.

Psystar 'winning' punishes both the legitimate Apple consumers *and* the people that enabled Psystar to exist in the first place : the hackintosh community.

i see nothing noble about anything Psystar has done so far.

x23, $300 for an OS really isn't that bad if it's a good OS. Paying 2 to 3 X more for hardware that has a certain white glow to it is a bad deal. Being stuck with an awful trackpad is a bad deal (Unibody). Having a logic board go out is a bad deal. Having no screen glare/matte options, no swappable dual hard drives, no firewire port, at vary times throughout the Apple product line is a bad deal. Having no choice on what hardware I can run the world's best operating system is a bad deal. Sell Mac OS X alone and let's see if competition proves that Apple hardware really is all they say it's cracked up to be. I guarantee you Apple hardware quality (if anything) will improve. Their customer service is great, hardware questionable.

It can.

Not with Boot Camp. I could only get 3 on using Wubi on the XP partition. When I tried to use rEFIt it kept breaking the XP partition.