Both. Judge Alsup is considered an expert on Copyright law.
Apple at least had full retail licenses of OS X for sale. They have “upgrade” versions for much less.
They do? Not true until just recently with the release of Snow Leopard and even then it was a combo deal for people who had skipped an upgrade. That was a first for Apple. The upgrade price for OS X.6 Snow Leopard Snow Leopard was only $29 also a first, because they wanted all Intel Mac owners to upgrade. Because of fairness, Apple decided that owners of the previous version of OS X (Tiger), who had not upgraded to Leopard, would have to buy a Leopard License as well and the combined Box Deal would also include upgrades to iWorks'09 and iLife'09 with OS X.6 Snow Leopard for $169. Prior to that decision all OS X upgrades had been $129 for at least ten years and there were no "full install retail/upgrade install" differences.
Psystar was selling their Open computers with Snow Leopard for the $29 price. Which. Proves. The. Point. They were buying the OS X upgrade and installing it, not the so-called full license, version.
Software should be treated like any other product.
Not because you think it should. If that were the case, what would stop me from buying one copy of Window7, removing the portion that uses the serial number and duping the hell out of it and selling millions of copies for $20 bucks to every Tom, Dick and Sandhu in the world and retiring as Rich and as unethical as Bill Gates?
“Both. Judge Alsup is considered an expert on Copyright law.”
By whom?
“Not true until just recently with the release of Snow Leopard and even then it was a combo deal for people who had skipped an upgrade. That was a first for Apple.”
They’ve offered that for a while. The non-$29 copies.