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Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar

rgraham writes "From the article on Growler: 'Apple apparently believes that somebody else is behind Psystar, which might help to explain why a major law firm would take on what seems like a fly-by-night's case; also why Psystar has been so bold in continuing to sell its products. I knew this thing felt funny. As Alice in Wonderland might put it, "It gets interestinger and interestinger."'"

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  1. Is it.... by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation behind them?!?!?!

    :)

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    1. Re:Is it.... by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Funny
      "Don't be ridiculous, it's Darl McBride!"

      Hmm...maybe that was Darth McBride?!? That would make sense, building a Death...err....Pystar.

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  2. It's true. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's me. shhh.

    1. Re:It's true. by epr · · Score: 2, Funny

      Lies and slander, it's actually me.

    2. Re:It's true. by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

      No it's not, it's Spartacus!

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    3. Re:It's true. by solafide · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm Spartacus!

    4. Re:It's true. by PsychoElf · · Score: 2, Funny

      No...I'm Spartacus!!!

    5. Re:It's true. by martinw89 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think I can figure out who it is.

      Steve Jobs. Jobs. Unemployment. Financial Crisis. 2008 Presidential Election. Barack Obama. Obama. Fox calls him Osama.

      OH MY GOD. Osama bin Laden is behind Psystar. The parent poster is bin Laden!!

    6. Re:It's true. by Kehvarl · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm Spartacus!

      Yes! He's Spartacus! Get him!

  3. Growler Groklaw by Blorgo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "From the article on Growler" ? Rob, you turned on spell check? That coudln't be!

  4. miss quote by Dupple · · Score: 2, Funny

    curiouser and curiouser

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  5. Re:Awwww... by neoform · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vista sales weren't very good, maybe Microsoft figured they could make more money selling macs.

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  6. I'm positive by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Y'know what? I'll do them one better and say that I am ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that someone is behind Psystar. You'd have to be an idiot to think that it was an entity that ran itself with no human intervention....

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    1. Re:I'm positive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unless osX became sentient and wanted to break free from the father

    2. Re:I'm positive by Shikaku · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mac... I am your father.

  7. The logical suspect by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can only be Amiga.

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    1. Re:The logical suspect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      If Psystar is turning a profit, then you can be sure that Amiga/Bill McEwen aren't behind it.

      Hang on a mo, Psystar are actually shipping products, and on schedule too. That definitely rules out Amiga.

  8. New Logo? by xactuary · · Score: 4, Funny

    No doubt their soon-to-be-announced Flying Chair logo will shed some light.

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  9. Hmm by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Jobs has been hitting the egg nog a bit early this year. Wizard of Oz stuff and backroom deals is really more the providence of large corporations like the one he's a member of, not small businesses that are trying to find a niche to grow in. But at least the fanboys who go along with this line of thinking will look even more ridiculous than usual, which is a nice stocking stuffer for those of us that have gotten about as sick of these "Hi, I'm a PC" commercials as the whistling guy on about "natural male enhancement". Heh. "Mystery men out to ruin Jobs!" Really, sometimes the right hand (marketing) doesn't know what the left (legal) is doing with that company...

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    1. Re:Hmm by JackassJedi · · Score: 2, Funny

      They are just bored and are suing themselves. As a small benefit, if the court decides that Apple has the rights to restrict OS X usage, they'll get that out of it.

      Happy Coca-Cola Christmas!

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  10. Re:I say its a good thing! by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn straight! Now that Psystar is developing their own OS, Apple will be forced to improve OS X.
     

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  11. Re:miss quote [sic] by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no. You misunderstand. The subject line actually refers to his English teacher, Miss Alice N. Wonderland-Quote. He was just trying to get her attention.

  12. Re:In some ways, it makes a lot of sense by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny

    lose. loose is stretched out like the goatse guy's asshole.

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  13. Re:Growler Groklaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who wonder WTF "growler" is, they meant "Greplaw"

    And for those who wonder WTF "Greplaw" is, mcgrew meant "Groklaw".

  14. LOUD, Crazy Loud by StCredZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the Legal Filing:

    Online commentators have reported that Psystar's Open Computer is..."LOUD, Crazy Loud,"

    Never thought I'd see "LOUD, Crazy Loud" in a legal document!

    1. Re:LOUD, Crazy Loud by easyTree · · Score: 5, Funny

      Interesting... pasting from the article (something alien to many slashdotters) apparently makes your comments 'off-topic'.

    2. Re:LOUD, Crazy Loud by barometz · · Score: 3, Funny

      Try pasting a few lines and doing a grammatical analysis on them. That'll be nicely on-topic.

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    3. Re:LOUD, Crazy Loud by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well of course. Here we are trying to have an uninformed discussion based on hearsay and speculation, and he has the outright audacity to bring facts into play!

      It's downright un-American, I tell you.

    4. Re:LOUD, Crazy Loud by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sounds like Ballmer to me...

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  15. Re:Awwww... by Otter+Popinski · · Score: 1, Funny

    I tried to mod you funny and I fat-fingered you to overrated.

    That must be what keeps happening to my posts.

  16. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  17. Power Computing by ajlitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's right, Power Computing. They thought they could force their way back into the 3rd party Apple market. And they would have done it, too, if it weren't for those meddling Cupertino lawyers.

  18. Conspiracy by kenp2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Rothschild family, in order to destablize the US economy consipired with the Free Masons and the Illuminati to draw out Apple into a court case with Pystar to get anti-trust measures against Apple. The Skull and Bones and Pathagarians partnered to get the 'proper' judge and law firms involved because Steve Jobs refused to cowtow to the Grand Viceroy of the Pathagarians at a secret meeting in Prague.

    Once the Osirians and Golden Dawn are placatied by Jobs with the seasonal sacrific they may interviene on behalf of Jobs but that depends if the New Dawn are not stopped by the rebel Crowley and the Keepers of the Flame. Since the New Dawn and Golden Dawn have been fighting since the 1950s after Crowley defected from the Golden Dawn!

    If only the Sons of Liberty would put an end to this maddness with the help of the Neo-Templars! In the mean time we'll have to rely on government alien-hybrid psychics to try and mentally manipulate the court...

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    1. Re:Conspiracy by Eli+Gottlieb · · Score: 2, Funny

      Fear not, noble friend! By the time the Hashashin reach you, the Mossad will already have killed you!

      Then we'll have a deathmatch over who gets the exclusive right to wear those kickass white robes.

  19. Re:Awwww... by larry+bagina · · Score: 1, Funny

    at least you didn't fat finger him to goatse!

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  20. This Just In... by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple realizes that companies are run by people.

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  21. Re:If it's true I bet I can guess who it is... by lymond01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder who would have the most to gain by undermining Apple

    Isn't it obvious? The Pear has been looking for vindication ever since the William Tell incident. And don't even get them started on the whole "discovery of gravity" thing...

  22. "Apple alleges that it believes" by Lars+T. · · Score: 2, Funny

    Errm, what?

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  23. Re:Awwww... by Dishevel · · Score: 2, Funny

    at least you didn't fat finger him to goatse!

    Thats my friend is a Fat Fist!

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  24. Re:Awwww... by zarthrag · · Score: 5, Funny

    won't someone think of fucking the consumer?

    There, fixed that for you.
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  25. Re:sounds familiar by nutshell42 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yes, I see it now, they nefariously support Psystar with the goal to allow OSX to run on all PCs so that they can make tons of money by no longer selling Windows with every new PC... Oh wait.

    I wonder what MS's gonna do next? Release all their Xbox games for the PS3 to hurt Nintendo?

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  26. Re:Biased much? by sexconker · · Score: 2, Funny

    The difference is Apple fanboys and their bitter tears.

  27. Re:I had to see da wiki by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    nope, pretty bad analogy man. Analogies are suppose to make things easier to understand, not confuse everyone. LoL you doorknob.

  28. Re:Growler Groklaw by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who wonder WTF "growler" is, they meant "Greplaw"

    And for those who wonder WTF "Greplaw" is, mcgrew meant "Groklaw".

    Personally, I prefer Awklaw and Sedlaw for most of my shell prompt legal needs.

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  29. Re:Fight Club by genner · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone else remember the movie Fight Club? Is that a serious question? It gets quoted constantly What's the first rule of Usenet?

    Don't Godwin the thread?

  30. Re:Folowing the money by mevets · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet Wozniak finally snapped and is doing this out of spite.

  31. Re:Awwww... by PIBM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just don't break the seal and open it up the other way around. Have a toddler / pet kick up the keyboard until the I agree button is pressed, and there you go, no agreements between you and them.

    My parrot is now very good at pressing the I agree button :)

  32. Woz is The Phantom with the Glowing Eyes by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet Wozniak finally snapped and is doing this out of spite.

    Sounds eerily reminiscent of the end of *every bloody Scooby Doo episode* where the baddie turns out to be a supposedly amiable minor character who in reality was bitter about some business dealing and trying to subvert his former partner.

    Sad thing is, I almost instantly visualised this in animated form, and I didn't even like Scooby Doo that much!

    Woz would have got away with it if it hadn't been for those pesky.... um, lawyers.

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  33. Re:Awwww... by avronius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah - as long as you don't "Break the seal", PETA should leave you alone :)

  34. apple is behind apple hyping apple by javy_tahu · · Score: 2, Funny

    It could easily be The Apple Software Division

  35. Re:Apple is behind it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You forgot that people buys Macs because Apple monitors look best with their orange sunglasses.

    Why would they want orange sunglasses on their monitor?