Psystar fights back!!

If you have not been following the whole Psystar deal then you need to get out from under your rock.

In short Psystar was installing apple software on non apple hardware. Much like I did with my old p4 sitting next to me. Anyone can do it. But they marketed this and apple decided that they did not like it. (We knew that was coming)

Well as I was checking my rss reader I came across a post. Psystar is fighting back stating antitrust laws are being violated

Via Techdirt

Once “unauthorized” Apple clone maker, Psystar, was sued by Apple, we fully expected it to challenge the legality of Apple’s EULA (end user license agreement) which forbade putting the software on non-Apple hardware (a provision that even Apple has been known to ignore). The comments to our post suggested that a more likely option would be for Psystar to claim that Apple was violating antitrust laws in requiring the software and hardware be bundled that way.

Indeed, it looks like both of those predictions were correct. Psystar’s response is likely to focus on both the legality of the EULA and whether or not Apple violated antitrust law. As predicted, this case may be very interesting to watch — and the end result could be very important for many other companies in the tech space.

It will be quite interesting to see how this works out.

Now who has the popcorn and nachos?

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