Apple has won an important legal round against Psystar, a computer manufacturer which distributes Apple’s operating system Mac OS on machines built by them.
Apple began the legal battle back in July of 2008, a few months after Psystar started selling computers. Psystar has allegedly accused Apple for abusing the Mac OS copyright, while the end user license agreement for the software clearly states that the software is only to be installed on Mac hardware and systems distributed by Apple.
The judge wrote at one point in his 16 page order:
“Psystar’s use of Mac OS X has been in excess and has violated Apple’s copyrights,”
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled in favor of Apple in the latest legal round, but the battle is far from over. However, in my personal opinion, Psystar is toast. They already filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May and with a corporation like Apple filing such a large legal suite against them, the worst has yet to come.