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Psystar licenses Darwin Universal Boot Loader to third parties, chaos ensues
[AppleInsider] In spite of an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, clone Mac maker Psystar Monday announced plans to license its virtualization technology for Mac OS X to third-party hardware vendors. The new Psystar OEM Licensing Program will allow Intel machines to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The announcement is a bold move likely to catch the ire of Apple, which plans to start its trial against the Florida-based company in January 2010. The new program will allow manufacturers to have hardware certified by Psystar, and allows use of the company's Darwin Universal Boot Loader. The software will allow manufacturers to install Snow Leopard by inserting the disc from Apple -- no additional steps would be necessary, the company said. The software supports up to six operating systems on one machine. Quote:
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Would I be stupid to say they might have borrowed some Chameleon 2 code for their little bootloader?
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I think is not just "some" code, when they will publish the code everybody will be able to see I guess...
Anyway I think its perfectly legal to do that, though not really ethical, specially the change of the name. AsRock P45TS | C2D E8200 | GeForce 8600GTS Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 + Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7600 + Fedora 11 |
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I guess there going to 'Uniform" the "Generic" Intel machines Is there any hope of AMD "Generic" Open machines like these?
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They are just having fun messing with Apple, while they still can
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I bet Apple will sue the craap out of them, but as long as they don't INSTALL Mac on em, theres really not alot Apple can do..Right??
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In some countries....
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I hope the guys over at Apple are satisfied with the outcome of the legal procedures. It's a good giggle running OS X on random PC hardware, but it's going to be less pleasant if they're not. |
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And now they've gone and released Rebel EFI.... http://store.psystar.com/rebel_efi with a downloadable demo iso and all.
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