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Apple v. Psystar - Apple Wins

Postby Edward » Sun 15 Nov, 2009 11:27 am

A U.S. District Court judge decided this morning that Psystar cannot sell clones of Apple's Macintosh computers.

The article is here and the 16-page decision is here (PDF).
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Postby Mandrake » Sun 15 Nov, 2009 3:01 pm

This wasn't unexpected. Psytar so brazenly violated Apple's EULA. It's no surprise at all that they lost.
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Postby iJohnE » Sun 15 Nov, 2009 3:45 pm

My only question is, what about the people that bought from them, and didn't know that it was illegal? Where do they stand?
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