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To: Swordmaker
Two easy courtroom demos will demolish the Apple EULA as you know it
37 posted on 08/27/2008 2:14:20 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
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To: dennisw; N3WBI3
Two easy courtroom demos will demolish the Apple EULA as you know it

You seem to be operating under the mistaken belief that judges are inclined to throw out laws about software licensing, EULAs, Trademarks, and intellectual property rights left and right. It isn't happening.

Suppose you like a Warner Brothers movie that is being sold by Warner Brothers only on BlueRay Disk for $35 because the director and producer do not want to produce a less than optimal viewing experience of their work. The studio is not issuing a DVD of the movie and is not allowing it to be sold on anything except WB's BlueRay disks. Lot's of other people like the movie as well and would like to buy it and watch it but don't want to buy the movie for $35 or don't have a BlueRay disk player and really, really want to watch it on their DVD player. Can you take that movie, rip it from the BlueRay disk and put it on a DVD and then sell it for $17.50 merely because some people want to buy it less expensively in another format? Do you have that right because you bought the BlueRay disk? Nope, you don't and you can't. Read the EULA that is displayed at the start of the movie.

How about taking your newly purchased BR disk of the movie, putting it into your spiffy BlueRay Disk Player, connected to your really neat 120 inch Plasma High Definition TV with the awesome 7.1 THX Surround Sound Theater audio system, and setting up a box office and selling tickets to all those people who want to see the movie? Can you do that? Nope, you are not licensed for that and are specifically enjoined from doing it. Read the EULA that comes with the movie.

Psystar boys will then demo an Apple computer with boot camp and XP installed. This will really get the judge scratching his head. Muttering to himself -- Apple brags about running XP better than a Dell machine? Yet makes it impossible to run Apple OS on generic hardware?

Sorry, Windows is licensed to be run on computers made by multiple manufacturers. It is perfectly legal to run it on a Mac under Microsoft's license agreement. That is its intended purpose. To see a legitimately licensed copy of Windows XP or Vista running on a Mac computer is totally irrelevant to seeing Mac OS X running—contrary to its license and purpose—on a Psystar Open Computer.

38 posted on 08/28/2008 2:00:59 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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