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Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed
CNet has a report that a federal judge has dismissed Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple. Observers had said that the counter-suit embodied the Mac clone-maker's best chance of prevailing and staying in business. We've been following Psystar and the dueling lawsuits since the beginning.
outside of being a spastic that doesnt know how not to get virus's, or needing to use final cut pro, what do we need a mac for? its not PPC anymore, so whats the diff? you want to run ubuntu on apple HW? buy an x86 box for a lot less than your crapple...Apple lovers, I dont give a shit about your mod points, mod me down, dont care...your a sucker that loves to get locked into suckage. If you really need to use final cut pro, I can understand that i suppose ;), im a musician who uses creative software...
And yet in 2008 OS X can only resize a window from the bottom right. It won't boot if a non-system drive fails, the disk utility is atrocious, something that belong on redhat 3. And you can expect security updates as and when apple can be bothered.
So Steve, how much does a judge cost these days?
I'll try to respond to the replies so far.
I think the integration of closed-source with high dependence on 3rd party open source is somewhat taking advantage of the spirit of all the programmers who contributed and did not receive any monetary compensation for their hard work. On the flip-side, Apple investors are profiting heavily.
To create an analogy.... The food pyramid. Grains, vegetables, fruit, meat, and diary... represent OSS, the sweets/fats represent the Apple contribution. Only there are certainly lots of sweets/fats. I personally wouldn't mind using a Mac if I could disable more of the animations/glitz(time-wasters), and those drop shadows which make resizing a window rather sluggish. For instance, instead of a genie/scale/drain effect, I'd like a more-or-less identical option to cmd-h, hide. Which is instant, but requires using the keyboard, which requires me to, 99% of the time, look at the keyboard, wasting more time. Which is frustrating! Though the dock, after some tweaking, is quite usable.
91degrees, I agree. Most tech companies jump at the chance to exploit FOSS, even if they don't know what they're doing (there's a funny Dilbert comic about this).
Basically I dislike most of Apple's license agreements. Like when they released Safari for Windows. Technically the legalise stated you could only run it on Apple-branded computers. How can anything be in the spirit of OSS when restricted to a single hardware vendor(that's like MS making Windows run exclusively on MS hardware...) Which is somewhat ironic that a proprietary OS runs on nearly any x86.. but an OS(and many other Apps, not all) based largely on OSS do not? Where's the openness?
Safari wouldn't exist without webkit. And OS X wouldn't exist without BSD/NEXT. I'm sure there's more, but I'm unaware.
My problem is not a single Apple product, but I have a problem with their corporation as a whole. Which is why I'll never purchase any Apple product(to save any trolls that 'suggestion').
I quit my last job because I was refused the choice of OS. I was forced to use Apple OS X. Ever used Filemaker? It's owned by a subsidiary of Apple. Even Mac users I speak with think it's horrible.
I don't mean to rant endlessly, so I'll stop now.
Enlightenment is the elimination of that which is unnecessary.