Re: Psystar skates on thin ice
On the one hand, Psystar selling a clone isn't much different than my selling my used MacBook Pro with OS X installed -- I purchased the copy of OS X 10.5 that's installed on the machine (it came with 10.4). When I sell it on eBay or whatever, I sell the hardware and the installed software, along with the licenses that came with that software.
The difference with Psystar was that they were violating the EULA by installing the software on a machine that didn't meet the restriction in the license. Still, as Wired noted, this isn't really something that Apple would want to address in a court -- there's no copyright violation going on, as they're simply selling a computer and the software (including the original box).
(One interesting twist to that statement, though, is that the OS X that's bundled with the machine is apparently unopened. If that's really the case, then Psystar technically violates copyright law when they install OS X -- if they're not installing the copy they purchased for your clone, then it can't be on your machine legally. But since this isn't first-hand knowledge, I don't know if it's really true.
But now that they're offering Apple's downloads, well, that's clearly a copyright violation, and I expect they have a bit of trouble ahead of them.
-rob.
