Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs

Da'Man writes "The Psystar saga takes another series of turns. Not only is the website down but an examination of the suit filed by Apple shows that the Cupertino Goliath wants Psystar to recall all Open Computer and OpenServ systems sold by the company since April. It seems that Steve Jobs is out to totally sink Psystar and put an end to Mac clones."

Comments

Re:Let's be honest here

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Who here would expect Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft to NOT do anything if a competitor suddenly started to sell compatible systems or even just emulators for their own systems?

This is not a relativistic complaint - sure, they would probably all do it, and they would all be just as wrong deserving of scorn.

Also, don't be two-faced about this: you don't like it when companies don't follow GPL and other similar licenses, but when it's Apple or Microsoft, why wouldn't they be allowed to do the same?

You must not be gnu here. GNU and most other free software licenses turn the intent of copyright around - the intent of copyright is to restrict freedoms of the end user. The GPL is hack of copyright to make it do exactly the reverse - increase the freedom of the end user. There is no contradiction between supporting more freedom for the end user and bitching that apple is trying to restrict the freedoms of end users.

Remember that Apple sells systems, not computers. This may be an alien concept to kids today, but at the beginning, all companies were selling computer+OS systems and they were all proprietary (Apple II, Mac, Atari ST, Amiga, CoCo2+OS9, C64+GeOS, etc).

Your definition of 'at the beginning' is woefully short-sighted.