Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed 256
CNet has a report that a federal judge has dismissed Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple. Observers had said that the counter-suit embodied the Mac clone-maker's best chance of prevailing and staying in business. We've been following Psystar and the dueling lawsuits since the beginning.
Re:it's a blow to us all. (Score:3, Interesting)
Security updates are free, but if I wanted fancy multiple desktops I'd have to pay to update to 10.5, and that doesn't sound very free to me. I was living okay without multiple desktops sure, but with Ubuntu I got them for free, and I am now in fact using them.
The OSX security updates also were usually quite tardy as Mr AC points out just above me. Took them months to get a patch out for that big DNS bug a few months ago for example.
Ubuntu has become a fairly polished OS. If I had an nVidia graphics card then it would be almost perfect on this laptop. Canonical have done an awesome job. Linux is pretty much ready for any n00b to come along and use it for everything but the latest commercial games (which is often the main problem with OSX too).
As long as we're being intellectually consistent. (Score:2, Interesting)
Though I disagree with Apple profitting off OSS which they did not initially create. They might as well be Linspire, in that regard.
Well, if you're being intellectually consistent in your ethics, then you should be disgreeing with Red Hat, Canonical, TiVo, LinkSys, Microsoft (yes, Microsoft), Sun Microsystems, IBM, HP, and a bunch of other big-name industry companies.
All these companies -- and more -- have profitted (well, okay, Canonical hasn't made a dime, technically ;) from OSS which they did not initially create.
actually, yes it does (Score:3, Interesting)
These could be considered as a form of echo question [sil.org]. Consider the example:
"I ate an entire bowl of thumbtacks."
"You ate an entire bowl of thumbtacks?"
"Yes."
Here the repair that's typically assumed to be part of echo questions is the entire sentence (which would likely be seen a semantically aberrant). There's no structural change to the sentence with the question mark (modulo some theory about hidden movement which I don't feel like working out). You'd probably hear an intonational change in speech.
Re:Mac OS Forge (Score:2, Interesting)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the only thing that makes the Apple Public License incompatible to the GPL is the fact, that you have to redistribute modified code under the Apple Public License and not the GPL.
Why exactly would that be a problem for Linux?
Re:Tying Arrangement (Score:3, Interesting)
The court has ruled that Apple does not dominate the market; therefore it has no monopoly position to abuse by means of a tying arrangement.
The point of prohibiting tying arrangements is that companies in dominating market position could not force sale of an undesirable good by tying it to a desirable good for which there is no meaningful competition.
So before you run around saying that no one is catching te tying arrangement, perhaps you should RTFA and learn that the judge has ruled that Apple's market is not the 'market for Apple's OS' but instead, the 'market for all OS's'.
No monopoly == no abuse of monopoly via tying arrangement
Other source (Score:3, Interesting)
There is also this web site:
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ [apple.com]
Apple may not always be timely, but they do eventually get it out. Remember Although there is GPL stuff in there, there is also BSD stuff in there. With a BSD license they aren't required to give back, but Apple does. If you complain about Apple being late with the source, remember that in this regards their first priority is being a profitable business and the being a good open source citizen.