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Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones
Preedit writes "Continuing its defiance of Apple, Psystar is reassuring customers that it is "definitely still shipping" its line of Mac clones. And, in a further nose-thumbing at Steve Jobs, Psystar this week said it's now making Leopard restore disks available to its customers, even as Apple insists that Mac clones sold to date be recalled.
In its story on the latest developments, Infoweek is reporting that tiny Psystar apparently has no intention of backing down in its legal dispute with the much larger Apple."
I for one am tired of Apple's Monopolistic business practices on their Mac range.
...so I think I'm going to buy one of these just to piss them off. Maybe we should all pitch in and buy Steve one for Christmas too.
I bet it's the size of an office stapler and sounds like a jet plane at takeoff, but still ... maybe the 3G will actually work.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
They'd probably be much happer(and less whinier) if they spent their hard-earned money at the gay disco instead.
Disco Stu's workin' pro bono!
1. Sell Mac clones
2. Rake in profit
3. ???
4. Get sued, loose but all the money is already in your pocket and the company goes out of business
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Exactly. Launder the money, create fake invoices for fake bills. When brought before a judge, hire the cheapest lawyer to stand before him and do everything he can to lose the case as quickly as possible. Judge kills company, orders money to be paid to apple. Oh, look we spent all of our money on "research and development" and property on mars, but you can have the folding chairs we used in the office and the remaining non dairy creamer. Which we will deliver tomorrow, instead of fleeing to Russia.
Note, I am neither a lawyer nor a master criminal. As such an advice taken from this poor excuse at humor, may not be in your interest. And this posting should not be taken as an endorsement of any crimes or misdemeanors, but rather as a crudely constructed parody of such.
... and why is he suddenly posting here so much? Is he new? :-)
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No, they have to retry the Compaq case. And IBM lost that one.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
Or Apple's reputation of "just working" will go down the tubes because they no longer have total control over the hardware.
This argument is ridiculous. People who buy a Mac clone won't blame system problems on Apple if Apple hardware doesn't suffer from the same ailment.
The only problem with Apple's reputation is that we can't trust them anymore because the company is over 30 years old.
Or Apple's reputation of "just working" will go down the tubes because they no longer have total control over the hardware.
I predict in 2012, we'll see the OSX BSOD projected on the ceiling at the Olympics.
Except, knowing Apple, it will be fuchsia instead blue.
Bruce Schneier doesn't laugh. He speaks encrypted binary that translates to 'ha ha'.
The issue is the software. PsyStar is buying copies of Leopard that are labeled "to be used on Apple-branded computers only". Since the Apple-branded computers already come with an OS license, the retail copies of the OS are effectively upgrades to the version already on a Mac. However, PsyStar is selling those copies preinstalled on machines that do not have licenses from Apple.