Full FeedWe knew it would happen; Apple sues Psystar
When Psystar started shipping their Open Computer in April, most in the tech industry thought it wasn’t a matter of if, but when, Apple would sue them. Apple has always been very protective of their license that only allows Mac OS X to be run on Apple hardware, and will argue in court that the Open Computer, which can run Mac OS X, is in direct violation of that license agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal:
It’s not the first time Apple has tried to shut down what are known as cloning efforts, but Psystar could become a more serious threat if its efforts to commercialize cloning techniques spurs others to do the same.
Psystar began selling its Open Computer in late April. It was still advertising the computer for sale on its Web site Tuesday.
“We take it very seriously when we believe people have stolen our intellectual property,” said Susan Lundgren, an Apple spokesperson.
Rodolfo Pedraza, Psystar co-founder, didn’t return a phone call seeking comment Tuesday.
In an earlier interview, Mr. Pedraza said Psystar should encourage other companies that have sought to make computers that could run Apple’s operating-system software. In the interview, Mr. Pedraza said Psystar is showing manufacturers a legal way of making and selling a computer that, without Apple’s approval, can use Apple’s Macintosh operating system. He says Psystar purchases the operating software from Apple stores and other licensed retailers.
“We pay retailers for every copy of software we sell, so Apple’s making more money,” Mr. Pedraza said in the interview.
Via [The Wall Street Journal]
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About time! With Psystar’s proliferation of diverse hardware and, more importantly, drivers from 3rd parties to support this diverse hardware, the vaulted Mac security and stability would be compromised. Having minimal diversity of hardware allows more comprehensive testing of compatibility (result: stability) and fewer security holes from having to deal with the hundreds if not thousands of drivers supporting diverse hardware in the PC world.
Even if Apples were more expensive than PC hardware (which PCMagazine and many others have shown Apple to be less expensive in every category that they have product in), I would still strongly recommend to anyone to use a Mac. And this does not even take into account the support costs that are a fraction of a windows machine.
For those who will spout about this as a “Mac fanboy” letter; I have run IT departments with over 260,000 desktops - Macs and pre-dominantly PC - the data on both acquisition and support costs is proven, empirical information gleaned from literally billions in IT budget spend. If MS had not built so many proprietary data formats and resultant non-Windows product integration hurdles to keep user / business data hostage to Windows products, more people would have already made the switch.
on July 15, 2008 at 08:58 PM - LINK