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To: Favor Center
That doesn’t appear to be what Psystar was doing. They were buying retail licenses and reselling them. They were not distributing multiple copies of a single license, nor did I allege that such a thing was fine or legal.

They were buying UPGRADE retail licenses and installing them on bare machines... as initial installs. Try doing that with Windows and see how far MS would let them go. And yes, they were found to have been distributing multiple copies of a single licensed copy as well. Your posts seem to imply that violating a legal contract was fine and legal.

OS X is sold apart from Apple branded computers.

So what?! Gasoline is sold to power automobiles and lawnmowers and go-karts. It can also be used in arson to burn down buildings... that does not make that last use legal.

That a judge ruled does not make the judge right.

Uh, until overruled by a higher court, yes, it does. And since Judge Alsup's rulings is backed by years of prior rulings in very similar cases all saying essentially the same things, nor, since Psystar does not have the $1,333,000 to post as bond to appeal in this case, I don't think he will be overruled.

68 posted on 12/16/2009 3:34:07 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

“Uh, until overruled by a higher court, yes, it does.”

No, it doesn’t. Not even remotely.


71 posted on 12/16/2009 3:36:22 PM PST by Favor Center (Targets Up! Hold hard and favor center!)
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