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Apple Lawsuit Against Psystar Filed

by , 11:30 AM EDT, July 15th, 2008

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Psystar, a Miami-based company that has been selling Intel computers bundled and running with Mac OS X.

The note appeared in Jorge Espinosa's blog on Tuesday. The suit was filed in the federal district court for the northern district of California against Psystar on July 3.

"The suit alleges counts for violation of its shrink wrap license, trademark and copyright infringement.... Apple's shrink wrap license which comes with OSX specifically requires that the software be installed only on Apple branded computers. Psystar has previously expressed defiance at claims that it might be violating Apple's rights. Statements that Apple's license might violate US monopoly law have been attributed to Psystar employees," Mr. Espinosa wrote.

TMO notes that observers have been concerned about the long period of time from when Psystar started shipping their computers in May and this filing. Some have proposed that Apple needed time to thoroughly prepare its case, and that prediction looks to have proved correct.

On Tuesday morning, Psystar's Website was down.

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Close Name:Sir Harry Flashman Posts: 700 Joined: 08 Feb 2007
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:08 pm Subject: As an Apple stockholder

As an Apple stockholder I am glad to see that Apple is finally doing something about this situation.

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Close Name:jbruni Posts: 93 Joined: 14 Jul 2006
Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:10 pm Subject: Monopoly?

Nice try. Hope they have good lawyers. But then if they did, they would have been warned about violating the software license.

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Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:03 pm Subject: Another Fla scam - imagine that!

Close Name:Sir Harry Flashman Posts: 700 Joined: 08 Feb 2007
Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:50 pm Subject: Their website is back up

I just checked, 10:40 A.M. Pacific Time, and their website seems to be working.

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Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:02 pm Subject: Website is Up

Close Name:jwarren2001 Posts: 64 Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:28 pm Subject:

I hope the crooks who started Psystar are living in alleys eating out of dumpsters when this is over.

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