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Apple Asks Judge To Shutter Psystar's Clone Unit
CWmike writes "Apple wants a federal judge to shut down Psystar's Mac clone operation and order the company to pay more than $2.1 million in damages, according to court documents. The move was the first by Apple since US District Court Judge William Alsup ruled that Psystar violated Apple's copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when it installed Mac OS X on clones it sold. Alsup's Nov. 13 order, which granted Apple's motion for summary judgment and quashed Psystar's similar request, was a crushing blow to the Florida company's legal campaign. In a motion filed Monday, Apple asked Alsup to grant a permanent injunction that would force Psystar to stop selling any computer bundled with Mac OS X; using, selling or even owning software that lets it crack Apple's OS encryption key to trick Mac OS X to run on non-Apple hardware; and 'inducing, aiding or inducing others in infringing Apple's copyright.'"
Groklaw has summarized Apple's request as well, and noted that Apple has also filed a motion to dismiss Psystar's litigation in Florida (or transfer it to California, where the above injunction was filed).
What three words? "Apple Asks Judge"?
It is not Apple's products that I have a problem with. For the most part Apple makes extremely good stuff. The problem with Apple is its corporate behaviour.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
They often made faster hardware, but it was generally less reliable, ran hotter, was more difficult to work on, etc. The clones gave Macintoshes a bad name.
And since Steve Jobs told you that, it MUST be true.
Another example of this is the new Palm smart phone trying to pretend it is an iPhone so it can connect to iTunes (or some such thing).
Apple banned their access, and Palm eventually gave up trying to connect.
Apple likes to have total control over everything, this is how they get things to "just work". They can take 9 of 10 variables out of the equation, because they don't allow them.
Corporate IT does the same thing using templates and approved software, etc... so when something goes wrong, there is only a limited number of things that it could be, and thus it is easier to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. However at the same time it is annoying as you are very limited.
Apple accepts this limitation as its core functionality in most of its business.
It has gotten a bit more flexible, and uses more standard PC hardware (which is why we are having this discussion now, and it makes it possible for people to hack it easily onto a "clone"). In the past they were made mostly with fairy dust, and unicorn dreams, but as a result, were even more horribly incompatible with anything, and if you thought Apple was expensive now, when everything was custom made, it was more expensive and less profitable, and less current (because they had a separate development path and less money). I believe the chips were Motorola, and not sure of the rest. So they have made some concessions to opening up their brand in the name of profits, but of course now this whole Pystar thing is a direct result of this. However as seen this is now the role of the courts...
The windows Logic users were left high and dry with no further updates or support whatsoever.
Just as Adobe left Mac users high and dry. Try to get 64 bit Photoshop CS for OS X. Oops, it's only available for Windows even though Leopard which was released more than 2 years ago is capable of running 64 bit apps. CS4 was released a year after Leopard.
Think about it - Logic for Windows was a $399 piece of software.
And Photoshop alone cost almost twice that.
I find it ironic that a Mac user would be proud of Apple for some of its most anti-competitive behaviour
What anti-competitive behavior is that? All Apple does is try to stop people from installing OS X on non-Apple hardware. Apple doesn't prevent people from installing Windows or Linux on PCs. Apple even allows people to install both on Macs. Where is this anti-competitive behavior?
Falcon
Should there be a Law?