Clone maker will countersue Apple

CNET News.com ^ | 27 August 2008 07:19 AM | Erica Ogg

[dennisw]

Any judge with common sense will not give Apple a sympathetic hearing. The wise guy shtick at Apple is wearing thin where you guys pull stunts like installing windows but others cannot install Apple OS

The two demos are appeals to common sense and the judge will simply say -— “No more pre-installations of the Apple OS”

[N3WBI3]

Well that all depends on what is rewarded in damages, they could put prystar under then again even if the outcome is as you say ( prystar gets the ok to sell hardware with a disk ) but the damages are enough to put them under then you will see another prystar pop up in a few weeks..

[dennisw]

Let a thousand Psystars bloom....
My guess is no damages assessed on these young men
It’s David versus Goliath and the judge will take this into account

18 months ago I emailed a Canadian company that was rumored to sell clones. The guy was so furtive about it. He would only say his computer has been tested and retested to run OSX. But I was 100% on my own as far as installing OSX plus he did not sell it

Once Psystar wins their business model will be copied

[N3WBI3]

“My guess is no damages assessed on these young men”

I very much doubt that, *if* the judge finds it is *not* ok to sell OSX preloaded on the openPC then there is damage done. What amusing is that were the judge to be a real jerk about it he could make the damage for each unit sold equal to the cost of a mac mini and thus these guys would have been logins sales..

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In the end Apple will probably end up in a world where OSX can get loaded on clones (or just sold with) but I suspect apple will eventually start using a hardware check (wow back to dongles ;) ) on updates..