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Apple releases legal team against Psystar |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
 Well it's about time. Apple has filed a lawsuit against Psystar. The one year old Psystar will now have to deal with the Apple legal team. Speculation as to what took Apple so long runs wild on the web, from finding solid legal evidence to wanting to make sure Psystar had money to pay up. The real reason, nobody knows. Psystar is claiming that Apple is violating Monopoly laws (no passing go without collecting $200, haha), and they have the right to make the Psystar clones.
The law suit does put Apple into a tight spot with some *nix and Windows users. Apple's use of the legal team may go against their alternative company image they have created. If the lawsuit is successful in stopping Psystar, how far will Apple go after that? Will they go after the EFiX USB device or similar devices that allow a user to install OS X onto any machine, or are they going after Psystar as something specific to their business model? Will this decrease conversion rate of the more techie/modders from Windows to Apple?
As more develops we'll let you know.
From the Gray Blog via Slashdot
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