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RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
The legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major commodity, AppStore etc notwithstanding.

Think back to the acquisition of the fabless chip maker PA Semiconductor a few months back: without a doubt, additional in-house functionality well beyond the capability of any cheaply-fabricated hardware will be added to future Macs and other Apple devices to clearly distinguish their bespoke product from the bottom-end (or even high-end copycat) competition.

If anything, the Cupertino folks have well learned the painful lessons of not protecting their secrets and their edge over the opposition in decades past, a near-fatal blunder that they will not be keen to repeat this time around.

Expect more patents, more strategic acquisitions, and yes, more lawsuits in this never-ending battle...
Posted by: AirmanChairman   Posted on: 07/16/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Not a chance  nmh | 07/16/08
Didn't Patrick Norton Build a Mac Clone on TSS?  drprod@... | 07/16/08
Well, I don't mean to split hairs, but  adinsx | 07/16/08
McClones  khess | 07/16/08
Apple never used proprietary hardware  frgough | 07/16/08
None of it was proprietary  Stuka | 07/16/08
None of it was proprietary...  RWNorman | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  AirmanChairman | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare it'll get worse  21_years_IT | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  howie@... | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  John Campbell | 07/16/08
Not so tricky  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
What Apple is losing  HypnoToad | 07/16/08
Actually  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/16/08
Apple could save all...  arminw | 07/18/08
Very poetic Jason  croberts | 07/16/08
Hit is closer to home  frgough | 07/16/08
on Hypocrisy  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/16/08
dead on  Sneaced | 07/16/08
This has nothing to do with fanboyism  Kid Icarus-21097050858087920245213802267493 | 07/16/08
Durr hurr  adinsx | 07/16/08
No actually yours is...  dkawalec | 07/16/08
durr hurr again  adinsx | 07/16/08
@adinsx: No, you don't know what you're talking about  dkawalec | 07/16/08
How many times do I have to durr hurr  adinsx | 07/17/08
Apple however is up front....  arminw | 07/18/08
@adinsx: Not sure how many times ...  dkawalec | 07/18/08
Ugh, seriously  adinsx | 07/23/08
not exactly  manada | 07/28/08
Uhh, wrong.  adinsx | 07/30/08
The fanboys . . .  JLHenry | 07/16/08
oops wrong reply button  adinsx | 07/30/08
RSS Syndicate is not the same thing.  frgough | 07/16/08
Question ...  macAndwin | 07/16/08
The difference...  J242 | 07/16/08
The difference  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
Are you kidding me?  croberts | 07/16/08
Way to completely miss the point.  adinsx | 07/16/08
Keep dreaming  croberts | 07/16/08
Pretty sad view...  Freebird54 | 07/16/08
Wanting Ponies  Harry Bardal | 07/16/08
They will never release to the mass  Mectron | 07/16/08
Suck up and "take it like a man?"  Ray Bluer | 07/16/08
No  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
Attack of the Mac Dweeb?  Ray Bluer | 07/16/08
But - Apple is being compensated  Timpraetor | 07/18/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  macdonalds | 07/16/08
You seem to be skipping over the part...  wolf_z | 07/16/08
Doesn't matter  J242 | 07/16/08
Doesn't matter  adinsx | 07/16/08
You seem to be skipping over the part..  msalzberg | 07/16/08
Who says you can't modify an OS?  omdguy | 07/16/08
US Copyright Law says so.  msalzberg | 07/16/08
Except...  wolf_z | 07/17/08
Not quite  adinsx | 07/17/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  winski | 07/16/08
Wake up folks Apple not innocent  msowajr@... | 07/16/08
You're the one who's sleeping.  J242 | 07/16/08
Nothing is forcing Apple to give Psystar hardware support.  adinsx | 07/16/08
The Spartans  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
How are they theives?  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/16/08
They take and modify Apple's IP  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
As I said  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/16/08
It's Apple's Problem  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
what does that mean?  readwrite | 07/16/08
Bad analogy  laura.b | 07/16/08
Not unless  Pliny the Elder | 07/16/08
Not really  laura.b | 07/16/08
Sound analogy actually...  J242 | 07/16/08
Not the same thing  laura.b | 07/16/08
Are you saying  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
Of course he does  laura.b | 07/16/08
Psystar is doing that  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
Geez, impossible task much?  laura.b | 07/17/08
The principle trumps the details  Len Rooney | 07/17/08
They packaged a computer with OSX  laura.b | 07/18/08
please explain how they ar emodifying their IP  omdguy | 07/16/08
Apple's IP  Len Rooney | 07/17/08
Breaking DRM does not imply modified IP  adinsx | 07/18/08
Not a band of theives? Stop believing everything you see in movies.  adinsx | 07/16/08
Well thanks  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
News flash: Permission is not needed to sell something you lawfully bought.  adinsx | 07/16/08
Newsflash:  msalzberg | 07/16/08
This Just In:  adinsx | 07/16/08
and you have proof of this?  omdguy | 07/16/08
The difference lies in..  msalzberg | 07/17/08
@msalzberg  adinsx | 07/17/08
Apple's right.  giannaccari | 07/16/08
...  Core2uu | 07/16/08
To add to what core2uu said  adinsx | 07/16/08
Huh?  superbus | 07/16/08
That was meant for macdonalds  superbus | 07/16/08
Well then  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
Well...  superbus | 07/16/08
So  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
No IP stolen....  LazLong | 07/16/08
Psystar modified ...  msalzberg | 07/16/08
I don't think so, but maybe?  LazLong | 07/16/08
you keep spouting this but have offered no proof  omdguy | 07/16/08
But why can't you use Apple's update?  msalzberg | 07/17/08
THEY DID NOT MODIFY CODE.  adinsx | 07/17/08
A different perspective here  goyta | 07/16/08
I think you are too quick to pronounce Prystar losing  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/16/08
Now I know Apple will win!  zkiwi | 07/18/08
Did you actually read the entire article?  Timpraetor | 07/18/08
Culture not warfare please JP  johnfenjackson@... | 07/16/08
$129 is a good price  Ken_z | 07/16/08
...  Core2uu | 07/16/08
Actually it does hurt Apple  Ken_z | 07/16/08
No surprise there  Pliny the Elder | 07/16/08
Jason, do you remember......  LazLong | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  Win3.1 | 07/16/08
Hopefully the validity of EULA's gets ruled on at least.  BillDem | 07/16/08
Proof that some judges are idiots wink  BillDem | 07/16/08
does Apple want this?  lumpy_blumpkin | 07/16/08
You might be disappointed  Len Rooney | 07/16/08
A pro-IP lawyer believes Apple will win, big surprise...  BillDem | 07/16/08
Still makes no sense...  omdguy | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  WB3 | 07/16/08
When you openly challenge the IP rights of any company  wackoae | 07/16/08
Hackerish?  Mac Hosehead | 07/16/08
Don't sell OSX off the shelf.  Pliny the Elder | 07/16/08
What exactly is being stolen?  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/16/08
That guy is seriously disturbed  pauliusp | 07/16/08
Brand name and quality perception  wackoae | 07/16/08
Umm  adinsx | 07/16/08
Suppose they did that CentOS did with RHEL  Michael Kelly | 07/16/08
Not technically.  adinsx | 07/16/08
How are they violating copyright?  Michael Kelly | 07/17/08
Copyright isn't what I meant to say.  adinsx | 07/17/08
It's all just pent up demand for OS X  GoPower | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  Ray Bluer | 07/16/08
NOT about the EULA  sip01 | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  Sneaced | 07/16/08
The Psystar isn't cheap anymore!  Piot | 07/16/08
The Enterprise-C at Narendra III?  LazLong | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  Tufelhunden | 07/16/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  andersmuller | 07/17/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  sboyce@... | 07/17/08
BSD  Len Rooney | 07/18/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  Chiatzu | 07/19/08
Persepolis wasn't sacked by the Spartans or the Athenians  pjotr123 | 07/19/08
Well  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 07/19/08
Apple's dead end  pjotr123 | 07/19/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  xxyl | 07/22/08
RE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare  dcmca | 08/27/08
wrong again moron  kaninelupus | 06/26/09
Apple wins and Psystar is in deep trouble  maximara | 11/17/09

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