Psystar shot down in flames - Groklaw reports

Actually some of the events are moving fairly quickly. For details, check out:

Detailed analysis of the summary judgment against Psystar

http://obamapacman.com/2009/11/court-declares-psystar-admitted-counterfe...

Covering the case history, Psystar arguments, and why Psystar FAILs in court (so far).

There goes my hope of suing Tom Tom to allow their OS on my Garmin Hardware or me suing Nintendo to allow their OS on my PS3.

Thanks Apple!

... who doesn't understand the difference between a product having a high price point, and a product that's expensive. Just because you can't buy an Apple box for $300 doesn't mean that the $1000 box they do sell is bad value.

If you make honest comparisons between equally spec'd machines, the price difference is often negligible, and sometimes Apple isn't even the most expensive.

STFU.

Apple tried that once before and it almost destroyed the company.

1) Focus, costs less than Audi, costs less than Ferrari.
Ferrari don't make cheap, reduced quality family cars, you don't see people moaning at Ferrari because they don't provide for the majority of people who want one but can't afford one.. 

2) Bedsit costs less than House, costs less than Mansion.
People don't rant and rave at estate agents demanding they offer houses for the price of bedsits, because they think houses are too expensive.

3) Dell, costs less than HP, costs less than Apple.
Apple don't make super cheap computers, they build luxury, state of the art ones, because they want to, and because people want them too.

If Macs were the only computers in the world then maybe I could understand people demanding lower priced ones, but they're not. If you think Macs are too expensive, don't buy one, and stop coming here to tell people WHO OWN MACS that they are too expensive. We already own Macs. It's like trying to persuade someone with a 10 ounce steak return it and ask for a ham sandwich instead, because it's cheaper.... No thanks, this Steak will do fine.

Read the Groklaw document. He addresses this topic. If you want free, unrestricted use of the code then use Linux. Apple sells proprietary code, and they have every right to make it proprietary. If you don't think it's good code, use something else. For my part, I think it's top-notch code. I also think they make top-notch hardware. I like what they sell. We do not have the right to mix and match, just because we wanna. That's just the way it is. It's not unfair. It's just life.

Apple's being plenty fair. They built the company with a particular vision and decided to do business a certain way. I'd say it's working out ok for them. Perhaps it's "not fair" that everybody can't afford a mac, but it's not Apple's responsibility to make it affordable for everyone. However, you're in luck. There are a few solutions. You can make some money, suck it up and buy a mac. You can buy a pc with Windows 7 that mimics OS X in more ways than one. You can buy a refurbished mac that is put through an extremely stringent  process to make sure it's as good as new. Or I suppose you could not use a computer at all. The choice is yours. 

You're just another cheapskate SOB that wants something for nothing.

Just to be clear, the judge writes:

Section 117(a) permits the owner of a copy of a computer program to copy or modify the program for limited purposes without incurring liability for copyright infringement. See Krause v. Titleserv, Inc., 402 F.3d 119, 121 (2nd Cir. 2005). But the question is whether Psystar can rely on Section 117 to escape liability. It cannot. As Apple pointed out, Psystar waived any Section 117 essential step defense when it failed to plead it. Psystar counters that it has not waived Section 117 because that provision is a limitation on a copyright owner’s exclusive rights rather than an affirmative defense. An earlier Ninth Circuit decision stated “Section 117 defines a narrow category of copying that is lawful per se” and “Section 107, by contrast, establishes a defense to an otherwise valid claim of copyright infringement.”