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Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar
From: |
Thufir Hawat |
Subject: |
Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:47:59 GMT |
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:35:17 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> They sell a comprehensive solution that is dependent on their
>>>> hardware, just like Actiontec sells a router as a comprehensive
>>>> functional device.
>
>>> No, actually, OS/X isn't dependent on Apple's hardware. It will run
>>> happily on a Psystar box.
>
>> But not legitimately, I understand.
>
> That's under contention in an American court at the moment. Should it
> be legitimate for a software manufacturer to dictate what sort of
> hardware his software package may be run on? I don't think it should
> be.
Isn't there a ROM chip which validates the hardware to the OS, else the
OS won't _____ (?install?). Psystar reverse engineered that chip?
-Thufir
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, (continued)
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/23
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Hyman Rosen, 2009/02/23
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/02/23
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/23
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/02/24
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/24
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/02/24
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/24
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar,
Thufir Hawat <=
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/02/24
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Rahul Dhesi, 2009/02/21
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/21
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Rahul Dhesi, 2009/02/21
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/22
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Rahul Dhesi, 2009/02/22
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/22
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Thufir Hawat, 2009/02/22
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, amicus_curious, 2009/02/22
- Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar, Thufir Hawat, 2009/02/23