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To: Swordmaker

This is terrible. Screw you Jobs.


9 posted on 11/14/2009 7:59:38 PM PST by FreeManWhoCan ("By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.")
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To: FreeManWhoCan

Why is this terrible, and why screw Jobs? Psystar wouldn’t have had a OS to misappropriate if Jobs hadn’t brought back OSX from his “in between” engagement. There wouldn’t have been Apple hardware either, since Apple was on the brink of oblivion until Jobs came back.

Apple is merely protecting their intellectual property.

I think it will be revealed eventually how the Psystar owners got their funding. No sane bank or knowledgeable private investor would have put that kind of money into their lawsuit: it had no way of winning whatsoever.

Either it will turn out to be a corporation seeking to cause trouble, someone who trusted the Psystar brothers to the extent that nothing they could say would be disbelieved (read: family), or they misrepresented how they were going to use money and obtained loans from official banking services.

This isn’t a victory for the “Man”. It’s a victory of free enterprise and judicial protection of Apple’s right to use the property that they and they alone created.

Besides, Apple has NOT attempted to crush the interest groups which will tell you exactly how to build your own Hackintosh. They merely don’t want anyone making money off the operation, it’s pretty clear and pretty obvious to any outside observer.


10 posted on 11/14/2009 10:19:57 PM PST by Aqua225
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