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OX X Computer Cheap - Not So Legal

by Matt Hartley on April 14, 2008 at 10:16 pm · Comments
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I am having a really difficult time wrapping my mind around how the people behind the “OpenMac” suddenly changed to the Open Computer perceive selling this product as a worthwhile idea?

Unless OS X Leopard has returned to its BSD licensing roots, I am having a tough time believing Apple is going to let this one slide by. Then again, switching the product name to “Open Computer” buys the seller some time I suppose.

Now to be fair, if these people were simply selling compatible hardware, without the needed Hack-n-tosh patch to get OS X working on non-Apple hardware, I would have no issue here. But these guys are offering to pre-install Leopard on their hardware! Can we say “getting sued out of existence” by Apple?

So what do you think, should these guys be brought into court or instead, do you find them violating Apple software license a perfectly acceptable? Hit the comments, share your thoughts.

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What Do You Think?

Rolf G. Bercht - April 15, 2008 @ 3:47 am

…hmmm… many years ago IBM was forced to unbundle their hardware and software offerings… Maybe Apple should not force the issue to much..?
Rolf

Thomas Kluck - April 15, 2008 @ 6:17 am

Seems hardly worth Apples trouble. These guys won’t impact Apple’s sales., and I doubt Apple could recover even the cost of the suit. Sitting back and saying nothing for a while gets Apple free press time. (say what you want, but spell my name right…). Anything that put OS X ‘out there’ makes it look more and more like a viable alternative to Vista. This would be the clever approach.
Ironically though, logic and reason do not infect the computer business.If it did Vista wouldn’t exist.
Then again if reason and logic had prevailed the PC world would be ruled by IBM and Xerox.
and most of the columnists would still be in the mail room…

Keith Allan - April 16, 2008 @ 5:36 am

Good for them, I wish them every success, although I hope they’re paying for it.
Welcome to the free market, if you put a product on the market it’s available to all, this is one of democracy’s basic foundations. Big corporations like Apple, Microsoft, etc. are undermining this.
I have nothing but contempt for EULA’s, they’re merely an attempt to control the product after the sale in order to maximize profits and cut potential competitors out of the market.
KEITH-1

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