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Posted on 10/03/2009 7:32:08 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Psystar attorney leaves Apple team
Psystar shuffled its defense this week as one of the attorneys defending the Mac clone builder left its team. A filing has revealed that lawfirm Welker and Rosario's co-founder, David Welker, exited the team for unknown reasons but said he only played a small role in defending against Apple's copyright accusations. The defense member was responsible for filing some of Psystar's more recent filings, including those demanding Apple executives re-appear as witnesses, but said he neither worked with Psystar first-hand nor received pay for his efforts. His duties will be taken on by Eugene Action, who was already involved in the lawsuit as of September 23rd and was already the counsel of record.
Welker was brought on as part of the same move that switched Psystar's legal team to Camara & Sibley. The latter remains Psystar's actual defense in court for the case.
Both Apple and Psystar consented to the move in an "adequate" amount of time, according to the statement filed by Welker, suggesting that neither objected to the transition. The trial is only expected to start in earnest as of January 2010.
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I want Pystar to win. I’m sick of having Apple forcing me to buy one of their computers to run their platform. Apple has lost countless billions buy keeping their system a closed shop.
No, they haven't. Apple makes billions on doing so. The last time they attempted to license the Mac OS it almost killed the company.
Psystar is perfectly able to do what Apple did. Psystar could build their own OS based on the same open sources that Apple has. They could do the research and spend the years and money to develop their own GUI and APIs to hook into the UNIX core and MACH kernel that Apple has done. They can even use the open source applications that Apple has developed and placed out under open source licenses. They prefer to violate Apple's copyright rights and ignore the licenses that Apple DOES use to allow users to have access to their intellectual property.
I wonder if pay is the real reason for withdrawing or if no-pay was part of the deal. How many others are working for free or, if not, are not getting paid.
No, they haven't. Apple makes billions on doing so. The last time they attempted to license the Mac OS it almost killed the company.I want Pystar to win. I’m sick of having Apple forcing me to buy one of their computers to run their platform. Apple has lost countless billions buy keeping their system a closed shop.
Psystar is perfectly able to do what Apple did. Psystar could build their own OS based on the same open sources that Apple has. They could do the research and spend the years and money to develop their own GUI and APIs to hook into the UNIX core and MACH kernel that Apple has done. They can even use the open source applications that Apple has developed and placed out under open source licenses. They prefer to violate Apple's copyright rights and ignore the licenses that Apple DOES use to allow users to have access to their intellectual property.
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