16th April Comments

Forget the Courts — Apple May Fight Mac Clones With Tech

Posted on April 16th, 2008 at 7:26 am

Apple may have a hard time shutting down the new maverick Mac-clonemaker Psystar, say legal experts.

Psystar, a Miami-based IT services company, started advertising the $400 OpenComputer this week. It’s a generic PC that comes with Leopard, Apple’s latest operating system, pre-installed.

And while Psystar may be violating Apple’s end user license agreement, or EULA, by doing this, legally there’s not much Apple can do about it, says Raj Abhyanker, a patent lawyer who used to write patents for Apple.

While I would not call Apple a monopoly in the case of computers, ipods yes but what they plan to do by selling these little rascals I have no idea unless it is a case of someone that just wants to get into the news for a day or two. And no I am not a fanboy of Macs this is just the way I see it, Baldy

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