"Apple has added a new wrinkle to its copyright infringement lawsuit against Florida-based Psystar. The Cupertino-based media company now claims the Mac clone-maker violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In a revised claim filed Nov. 26, Apple charged Psystar ?has illegally circumvented Apple?s technological copyright-protection measures,? according to Computerworld. Apple also named 10 new unnamed defendants, listed only as John Doe 1 through 10."

This questionable move might be aimed to indirectly accuse the OSX86 community in this DMCA suite. But there are many open questions like, how apple's lawyer are trying to find their John Does, as most of the initial OSX86 developer are out of business for long times, or if they are just going to be replaced by some dummies for the show of it, or even worse will never be named and used as blank paper for further card tricks.

Factly most of the OSX so called "copyright-protections" (erm, what is a copyright protection? The circle around the "c"? We think copy protections should be the right word) do not even exist. Other than that isn't it malfunction that something just runs on one hardware and not on another? Not just cause OSX is majorly based upon BSD and Mach it is based upon FREE opensource work, which was NOT created by apple and which was designed as operation system to run on any hardware.

Getting the OSX frankenstein OS run on any Intel hardware, basicly just needs some adjustments (fixes) to the kernel, which is licensed under APSL for free modification by anyone who republishs the source. Modern methods do not even need this anymore as OSX is simply booted with a special crafted EFI, which gives OSX some Boot params which is a INTEL standarized work which later shall replace BIOS one day. Under this viewpoint, so what? What is Apple trying to enforce or sue here? Is it all theather?


Please don't get me wrong I dislike Psycrap as much as Apple does (peopel who steal from a free community for commerce just suck and we don't condone piracy like they do with their updates), but some things Apple does in this suite go a step to far. Getting themself a wind up for their sales by thousends of switchers and geeks who got intrested in OSX, tolerating things until they were useful and striking it down afterwards is terrible bad idea.* So we are going to follow this case with intrest, either it will finally free the world of the misbelive OSX is just designed for macs or make this place a sad world for anyone who likes OSX as a operation system. Happily EFIX and other free and clean solutions still exist and ever will, which will make it much harder to claim DMCA violation for, if it's not even impossible to do so.

If Apple is now going to attack the hacking scene, they will, soon or later, get the bill for sure. Never forget your roots. It's still doubtful if you will ever see any of the oldschool celebreties in court.

Apple, don't forget your roots...what about blue boxes?

[quote=from flicker]This is a higher resolution version of the original Macintosh pirate flag that was painted by Susan Kare[/quote=from flicker]



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hack1 = Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Build 10C531
hack2 = Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard 10.6.1 Build 10C504
iBook G3 DualUSB = Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2.8 Build 6R73
MacBook 403LL/A = Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Build 10C531
iPhone 3G = iPhone OS 3.1.2 Build 7D11 Baseband 05.11.07 Bootloader 05.09 [G2M3S2] ClaroBR 5.0

this is sad. steve jobs is a greedy little asshole and if woz was still had a stake in apples direction i dont think he would condone such rash and brutal action to people who had not done anything wrong.

totally agree with Sam opinion...

just a phrase:
If Apple was turned to Woz side, Apple would be a better company.

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