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We don' need no steeeeenking license!

Good on them.
The URL is http://community.psystar.com/ for those who were wondering.

Something just occurred to me: Maybe Psystar hopes to establish a customer base in South American countries because those markets are not directly affected by US court decisions.

Bren spam is pretty borderline as tech news, imho.

robco wrote:

I hope they all lose their shirts. If you want open computing, use an open operating with open source software.

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Bren wrote:

Secondly, what does "the top ten most highly moderated questions" even mean?

Community moderation where the questions are rated by other users.

Bren wrote:

So they should have said that. Too me, in the context of Web communities, the term "moderated" implies some type of action taken by a forum's moderators, as opposed to votes cast by users.

I bet you don't even have a slashdot account.

anyway, Psystar is mad about Snow Leopard.

“By tying its operating system to Apple-branded hardware, Apple restrains trade in personal computers that run Mac OS X, collects monopoly rents on its Macintoshes, and monopolizes the market for ‘premium computers,’” said Psystar’s lawsuit, filed last Wednesday. “Apple’s share of revenue in the market for premium computers—computers priced at over $1,000—is currently 91%.”

Is the Open(7) not selling as well as you'd hoped, psystar?

91%, I have a very hard time believing that figure.

That being said, I firmly believe that one should be able to do whatever one wants with legally purchased software, if you want to resell it, you should be allowed to provided you sell all disks, and remove all copies and backups of it you have. If you want to hack the software to improve compatibility, you should be allowed to do so, and no EULA should be allowed to prevent this. I even believe that the DMCA has a specific clause concerning the right to circumvent DRM in order to make software compatible with another platform.

Last edited by Some1 (2009-09-04 12:02 am)

Some1, all of your points are totally valid, but here's the thing:

The way it's always been for us Mac users is that any time we want to install a copy of the Mac OS on any machine, we can just do it, with no hassle about authentication keys or serial numbers or whatever.

Apple can afford to be very cool about such matters because even if you only pay for one copy and then go ahead and install the Mac OS on every computer in your house, every single one of those computers is a computer that Apple sold at some point and made money from.

Psystar changes all that.

As much as their arguments may hold water, I personally do not look forward to the day when OS X comes with Apple's version of Windows Genuine Advantage.

Bren wrote:

As much as their arguments may hold water, I personally do not look forward to the day when OS X comes with Apple's version of Windows Genuine Advantage.

Windows Genuine Advantage doesn't work.  The final version of Windows 7 was already permanently cracked, and it hasn't even officially been released yet.  This is par for the course, as copy protection goes.  I don't think Apple would be foolish enough to waste precious resources on this crap.

ScifiterX wrote:

And at a higher cost

Modern hackintoshes are easier than ever to get going, and work absolutely flawlessly --How has Apple responded? By selling a Snow Leopard "upgrade" for a mere $30 that doesn't check the OS version you're installing over --in fact, it allows a clean install! 

Yeah, I'd say you guys have nothing to worry about.

It does protect against piracy, it doesn't directly evaluate the integrity or security of any computer, and it doesn't protect actual customers from being victim of false positive readings.