The New York Times reports that Apple is suing something called Psystar for making "Intel-based systems with Mac OS X pre-installed". According to Jorge Espinosa, a Miami-based lawyer who specializes in intellectual property law, Apple's lawsuit charges Psystar with violating its shrink wrap license, as well as with trademark and copyright infringement. "Psystar has been manufacturing and selling a line of computers which sell pre-installed with Apple's OSX operating system," Espinosa noted in an entry to his blog today. "Apple's shrink wrap license which comes with OSX specifically requires that the software be installed only on Apple branded computers."
Rico says Apple has a history of eating these people for lunch, so don't rush out to buy your Psystar just yet... Besides, things don't look good already: "Psystar's Web site was available earlier today, but by 1 p.m. EDT it was offline and returning the error message: Database Error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQL."
15 July 2008
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