Our courts should have slapped Psystar down much faster when they started ignoring Trademarks, Copyrights, and intellectual property.
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Our courts should have slapped Psystar down much faster when they started ignoring Trademarks, Copyrights, and intellectual property.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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Actually, EULA use term "Apple-labelled".
Any box with a label containing word "apple" or a picture of an apple conforms to this requirement.
Apple Inc. employs world-class designers and marketing people, solid engineeers but employs lousy lawyers.
It is worth repeating that Hackintosh builders actually purchase legitimate software from Apple.
05.20.09
By Mark Hachman
Move over, Psystar and PearC, and make room for FreedomPC and RussianMac.
All four companies share a common trait: all have designed, built, and are selling PCs with Mac OS X preinstalled, a practice that has embroiled the U.S.-based Psystar in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. Overseas, however, Apple is subject to the vagaries of local laws.
FreedomPC and RussianMac differ in the look and feel of their offerings, however. FreedomPC's product page is studiously neutral, offering Mac OS X preinstalled for an 80-pound premium over a similar PC with the Linux-based Mandriva operating system preinstalled.
"Freedom PC is about... well, freedom. YOUR freedom," the Web site claims. "It's about giving you the CHOICE."
"Until now, if you wanted a reasonably priced PC, you had to use that operating system," FreedomPC adds. "If you wanted the other operating system, the one you heard it was easier to use and was more secure, you had to buy that hardware - and pay double, or even triple. And if you wanted to try out yet another alternative, you had to either build your own machine, or erase the OS you paid for and install the other."
RussianMac, by contrast, uses an Apple logo in its browser tab designation, as well as pictures of the Mac desktop.
RussianMac also offers one unique product, the MiniBook, an Asus netbook converted to run on OS X. RussianMac guarantees the "correct work," although the compoany notes that features like multitouch won't work. The listed price is 18,400 rubles, which is approximately $583.
RussianMac claims that the company only selects certain components designed to work with Mac OS X, and the peripheral hardware. Other methods are not disclosed, according to the company. All components and equipment are shipped with a three-to-five-year warranty.
An Apple representative did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
OSNews filed earlier reports on both RussianMac and FreedomPC.
If Apple was smart they’d just start selling the OS to others and offer an update subscription service. Software is much more profitable than hardware.
IIRC, in the old days anyway it was the ROM that made it Apple. No longer true?
RussianMac says that a full version of Mac OS X Leopard comes pre-installed on its computers. The company also confirms that the operating system is able to receive automatic system updates from Apple once installed.I'm sure this is harmless, like all the Russian email spam, phishing, hacking, etc.
Apple will lose against the Russians - just look at how ineffective the RIAA has been against the Russian music pirates who "legally" sell music in .mp3 formats for pennies on the dollar compared to legit channels. Russia, like the Chinese, don't give a rip about US copyright/patent/trademark laws. And what can a company do about it?