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Yesterday, Mike posted about the new
commercial hackintosh from Psystar. Many of our readers noted that, wow, that was a lawsuit waiting to happen -- or as Fake Steve put it, Psystar is French for
"We're about to go out of business". Here are a few of the high points that TUAW is aware of:
The Mac name Using "Mac" in the product name was probably a bad idea. Psystar just re-named the platform to "Open Computer" instead.
Pre-installing Leopard It would seem that installing Leopard on non-Apple hardware is a violation of Apple's EULA. Virtualization vendors such as
Parallels and
VMware have already acknowledged this constraint in their product development; otherwise, both would offer VMs capable of running Leopard on any PC and
not just on Mac OS X Server.
Unlicensed PC_EFI It looks like Psystar is using an
EFI bootloader without properly acknowledging
the actual author or receiving permission to distribute the software.
If you haven't yet checked out the
discussion thread on Digg, I encourage you to do so. It's especially useful with its discussions about hardware limitations and hackintoshes.
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