Mac clone maker vows to fight Apple's EULA in Court

The comment regarding Honda should be... if you change the engine in your Honda car it voids the Honda warranty!

Or... if you use the engine software (that Honda designed) in another manufactures car (and sell it) their lawyers will be contacting you!

Can people employed by Psystar really be this stupid?Apple makes both SW & HW. They have a right to limit their use. MS doesn't make Windows HW, so the analogy is flawed.

Try this: Microsoft and Sony don't allow their game box's software to run on any other hardware. Is that against the law as well? If so, I'll start my own PS3/XBox clone company right now!

How about "Imagine, if Apple said that the DRMed music you purchase in iTunes store and HD Movies you rent there required Apple hardware to play?" Oh, well.

Really, xourt and court are two different things. While Psystar may have a chance in xourt, I'm pretty sure Apple would win in court.

Emulating gameconsole software on PC's is exactly the same and is practiced for years now. Connectix's won in court over a PS2 emulator for the Mac and Sony had to buy the company to stop them. The ULA is not the the law, it only represents the companies' vision on the law.

The EFI emulator and some additional drivers just make it compatible with osX and this is most certainly not illegal. Selling it preinstalled with osX (and a backup disk) is something different, the courts will have to decide on this.

If one happens to be in the market for a cheap Apple computer (I'm thinking low income families), now would be the time to grab the clone before it gets pulled from the market. Because it will get pulled.

This ought to be entertaining... albeit short lived.

apple uses shitty hardware and marks up the price til your anus hurts... they are stupid and need a dose of new earth medicine, 3-tier system designs cannot be sustained by the smarts of entrepreneurs like myself. hehe!

Apple, they should finally be put in their place, controlling people with glitzy marketing and conniving ways.... GENIUS BAR, stupid I say. Money down the toilet with apple. No gives a crap about laws in the new world of the consumer choices, people will get their way this time around.... consumer vigalantes are on the rise!!! YAY!!!

The movement continues!.... k back to the hipocracy ;)

There are not only low income families but countries in which the income is much lower on the average than in the US. I have the impression that Appleʼs pricing is very much US-centered and then, when their products are sold outside US, they are even priced higher dure to local taxes and greed, too, to some extent. This is why the global market share lags so much behind that of the US. I donʼt know how much they are aware of this in Cupertino, or rather, how much they really want to do something about it. Anyhow, this is interesting as it at least might force Apple to think again when it comes to a desktop machine which places itself between the Mini in specs, and the Pro. Their idea might be that the future is with laptops and if they are fixed on an idea, they are not much for listening to customers, alas, for good and for bad. Still, isnʼt it the OS, first and last? Yes, the road to success for them has been to have control over both the soft- and the hardware, but what happens if the global market share reaches the same as in the US? Would it be possible to maintain the high level of quality then? Must it not come to a point when they need to allow the OS to be installed on other PCs? The interesting question is what strategy they have for such a situation. I am convinced that they have one - at least one...

How about "Imagine, if the record industry and followed EMI ad dropped DRM, so said unDRMed music that you purchase in iTunes store will work on non Apple hardware" Oh, well, thats greedy record executives for you.

Fixed that for you.

A reminder on Steve Jobs thoughts on DRM in case you forgot: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/