Psystar licenses Darwin Universal Boot Loader to third parties, chaos ensues

pr web.com/releases/2009/10/prweb2984134.htm

Looks familiar?

Would I be stupid to say they might have borrowed some Chameleon 2 code for their little bootloader?

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.

I guess there going to 'Uniform" the "Generic" Intel machines Is there any hope of AMD "Generic" Open machines like these?

00010 D.M

They are just having fun messing with Apple, while they still can

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?

~Nerd

@nerdyperdyI 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?

I just heard about the Psystar affair, and it would be less gut-wrenching if they didn't ship OS X pre-installed on their boxes, but snippets like

@psy star.com/faqs/#faq31Can I load my own operating system? Yes, you can order your Open Computer with whichever operating system you like and install your choice of operating systems afterwards. We do not provide support or assistance for the installation of OS X Leopard outside of our facilities at this point in time. Psystar also specifically supports the…

for example, suggest that they do.

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.

And now they've gone and released Rebel EFI… store.psy star.com/rebel_efi with a downloadable demo iso and all.

Stranger and stranger...

wait, darwin is open-source right?

if darwin is open source, and apple is using it as their primary loader, why would apple sue psystar over an open-source booter? because they think apple is the only company that has the right to use the open-source booter? or maybe cuz they think psystar has that capacity to have each and every hardware manufacturer participate in their license, no more "use on this MoBo cuz apple says so" crap hahahaha!

@gudlldvilwait, darwin is open-source right? if darwin is open source, and apple is using it as their primary loader, why would apple sue psystar over an open-source booter? because they think apple is the only company that has the right to use the open-source booter? or maybe cuz they think psystar has that capacity to have each and every…

Uh, what?

Do some research before posting crap like this.

Darwin is NOT A BOOTLOADER.

Secondly, the reason Apple is throwing a fit is because Psystar is not providing the source as covered by the license terms that boot-132 is released under, which is the deprecated open source bootloader in question.

Thirdly, Apple threw a fit because Psystar is doing this all for profit. Have you seen Apple attack anyone in the OSx86 community? No. Why? Most of the work is open source and not for profit anyway.