[Swordmaker]

The faces of Psystar... a sympathetic article from the LAWeekly about the Pedraza brothers. Includes a lot of inaccuracies... PING!

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[GladesGuru]

KEWL! ! !

More power to ‘em.

If Microsoft can’t be a monopolistic dog in the manger, why should Apple be allowed to so do?

[Cacique]

btt

[zeugma]

Personally, I don’t have any problem with Pystar. As long as they are selling legitimate copies of the OS, they are free and clear as far as I’m concerned.

[TheBattman]

the giant firm, with its 35,000 employees and billions of dollars in revenue, filed a 35-page lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming Psystar was selling “unauthorized” versions of OS X.

Wow - playing the same "evil greedy corporation" game that the 0bama administration and the Democrat party as a whole have been playing to punish those who actually hire, pay wages, and pay the bulk of taxes already... No bias here, just move on...

So - I have a question. How would MS react if... say... a creative type busted the code to run all the X-box stuff, then built econo-box machines that could play all those X-Box games, but without MS getting their cut? In the process, this crafty soul had to reverse engineer, then re-engineer this set-top box to fool the x-box code into believing it was a real X-box.

[SunkenCiv]

"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,'" Psystar argues.

...as opposed to the non-profit public service work he and his brother have been doing. :')

[coconutt2000]

Flawed logic throughout the piece and the author presents it without blushing.

Oh well, there’s always room for a judge to wiggle out a ruling in favor of Psystar, no matter how nonsensical such a ruling may be to most of us. But if there is a ruling in favor of Psystar it’ll be a big surprise to everyone, and probably to the judge as well since he hasn’t appeared too sympathetic so far.

[TXnMA]

"So - I have a question. How would MS react if... say... a creative type busted the code to run all the X-box stuff, then built econo-box machines that could play all those X-Box games, but without MS getting their cut? In the process, this crafty soul had to reverse engineer, then re-engineer this set-top box to fool the x-box code into believing it was a real X-box."

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Re-peat af-ter - me... "Mi-cro-soft -is- -not- mon-op-o-lis-tic."

Microsoft has banned as many as 1 million users with modified Xbox 360s from Xbox Live, the online gaming service, in a bid to counter piracy.