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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

It's My Software! No, It's Mine! Psystar vs. Apple

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 02:00 PM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-1...tag=mncol;title

"Psystar is still tilting at legal windmills in its battle against Apple, this time asserting its right to do whatever it wants with products obtained legally from Apple."

And the battle continues! Psystar filed amended paperwork in court stating they had the right to resell the OS X software under the first sale doctrine, since they purchased it legally through Apple and other resellers. The problem with this argument, as outlined in the article, is that the courts (for the most part anyway) have disagreed, saying the first sale doctrine doesn't apply to software. Apple contends that the Mac OS X licensing agreement clearly forbids installation on any non-Apple hardware. I don't know about anyone else, but I have no interest in purchasing a 3rd party machine that just happens to be running OS X on it, I'd rather have a complete unit with hardware built with the software in mind. How about anyone else, any interest in buying from Psystar?


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