Clone maker Psystar sues Apple
It responds to Apple's suit with charges of anti-competitive EULA language
Psystar, the company that appeared out of nowhere in April announcing it would sell Mac-compatible desktop computers, has responded to Apple's lawsuit, accusing Psystar of infringing on its licenses and trademarks, with a suit of its own. Psystar's suit, being filed this week, takes issue with the end user license agreement bound to all copies of Mac OS. The EULA forces users to agree to not run Apple's software on non-Apple hardware. The suit alleges that this constitutes an anti-competitive trade practice, citing federal antitrust laws. Apple has not yet responded to Psystar's charges.
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Craig Wood
(7:34 PM on Thu Aug 28, 2008)
Lots of talk these days about cracks in the Apple Armor. There is no question that as the underdog Apple avoided public scrutiny of there policies and practices. Now with increasing market share on many fronts they are going to have to decide what they want their public face to be. All indications lead to them becoming less and less consumer friendly and more elitist in what is allowed with THEIR hardware and software.
Kyle Sollenberger (12:30 PM on Fri Aug 29, 2008)
Totally agree with you Craig.
Mike Wood (7:50 PM on Mon Sep 8, 2008)
Check the history books. I think I remember Apple making these kinds of accusations against Microsoft.
Thomas Woods
(10:10 AM on Thu Sep 11, 2008)
I think one of the reasons that the Apple company even exists today is because they've been able to make enough money by marking up their hardware prices to keep paying their software developers. I say let Apple keep their own OS on their own hardware--I just can't imagine a world without Apple, Inc.!