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Mac Clones and Psystar

April 19, 2008 (Saturday) | Apple

Back in August of 2006 I outlined a business plan for a guy in California who wanted to go after the PPC market Apple was then abandoning. There were three keys to my plan: a manufacturing and sales partnership with a major defence contractor; a commitment from Freescale on supplying processors; and a 1984 legal judgement we thought would force Apple to let us load MacOS X on our machines. That judgement, rendered by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth District in the case of DigiDyne Corp. Vs. Data General ( 734 F.2d 1336 (9th circuit, 1984)) "held that Data General's refusal to license its copyrighted computer software to those who did not purchase its hardware was an...

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