“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.”
Thats not my assumption, we might very well hear that if you sell the CD’s sans hardware you cant tell people what hardware to put it on, the again... we might not. You’re assumption is that because its in a EULA its law and we have seen time and time again that just aint the case..
“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?”
The difference here is that they are not modifying the Apple software in any way. To make your analogy more accurate lets say that Warner got together with Samsung and put in a license that you can only watch the movie on a Samsung player (or alternatively lets say Warner started to sell their own blue ray players) if the movie will play on a fuji player would it be legal for Fuji to sell the player with a free copy of the movie (assuming they legally bought the movie.
*if* they are modifying the OSX software than we are in the area of copyright infringement and this is not a case about the apple EULA. If they are not modifying it than this is a case of can apple tell you what hardware you can run the software on?
“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?”
Another specious comparison Prystar did not buy one copy and is giving it out to Millions of people. What if a movie theater bought the rights to show the arwner movie and warner tried to stipulate what kind of projector it could be shown on?
Psystar is selling what they call an "Open Computer"
They will install Linux, Windows or Apple OS on it
Most the judge will do is tell them they cannot pre-install the Apple OS
That Psystar will have to ship the Apple OS discs with separate instructions and software to do the Apple install
Meanwhile Psystar is getting reams of publicity courtesy of the sourpusses who run Apple
And that free publicity translates into sales for their bargain basement Apple clones
Score a big one against that bald headed stooge who runs Apple