Taken from: http://www.hackint0sh.org/news/319

“Apple has added a new wrinkle to its copyright infringement lawsuit against Florida-based Psystar. The Cupertino-based media company now claims the Mac clone-maker violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In a revised claim filed Nov. 26, Apple charged Psystar “has illegally circumvented Apple’s technological copyright-protection measures,” according to Computerworld. Apple also named 10 new unnamed defendants, listed only as John Doe 1 through 10.

This questionable move might be aimed to indirectly accuse the OSX86 community in this DMCA suite. But there are many open questions like, how apple’s lawyer are trying to find their John Does, as most of the initial OSX86 developer are out of business for long times, or if they are just going to be replaced by some dummies for the show of it. Factly most of the OSX so called “copyright-protections” (erm, what is a copyright protection? The circle around the “c”? we think copy protections should be the right word) do not even exist. Other than that isn’t it malfunction that something just runs on one hardware and not on another? Not just cause OSX is majorly based upon BSD and Mach it is based upon FREE opensource work, which was NOT created by apple. Getting OSX to run on any Intel hardware, basicly just needs some adjustments (fixes) to the kernel, which is licensed under APSL for free modification by anyone who republishs the source. Modern methods do not even need this anymore as OSX is simply booted with a special crafted EFI, which gives OSX some Boot params which is a INTEL standarized work which later shall replace BIOS one day. Under this viewpoint, so what? What is Apple trying to enforce or sue here? Is it all theather?

Please don’t get me wrong I dislike Psycrap as much as Apple does (peopel who steal from a free community for commerce just suck), but some things Apple does in this suite go a step to far. Getting themself a wind up for their sales by thousends of switchers and geeks who got intrested in OSX, tolerating things until they were useful and striking it down afterwards is terrible bad idea. So we are going to follow this case with intrest, either it will finally free the world of the misbelive OSX is just designed for macs or make this place a sad world for anyone who likes OSX as a operation system. Happily EFIX and other free and clean solutions still exist and ever will, which will make it much harder to claim DMCA violation for, if it’s not even impossible to do so.

If Apple is now going to attack the hacking scene, they will, soon or later, get the bill for sure. Never forget your roots. It’s still doubtful if you will ever see aanyone from the oldschool celebreties in court."

If you want to be known, don't be. We like to think we are united here as a hackintosh community but this is not a business and this point needs to be drilled in because I see people taking advantage of help all the time and not taking this as just a "fun thing to do" anymore.

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