How Psystar's computer measures up to a Mac

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I'm interested in comments about the following comment about an Apple 
clone maker's claim and the reference to the Appeals Court decision, 
also and especially as related to the IBM i....

---Alan

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9084319


     Psystar Challenges Apple Computers In Court
     <http://www.computerworld.com/comments/comment/view/9084319/64494#comment-64494>:


     Psystar has an open invitation to Apple Computers

to formally charge it with a violation of the Mac OS X licensing terms 
in a court of law.

Those terms, Psystar argues, are in violation of antitrust laws -- an 
argument for which the clone maker may have a precedent working in its 
favor. According to TechNewsWorld, a 1984 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 
decision held that a software publisher can't require consumers to run 
an operating system on a specific type of hardware.

The Supreme Court reportedly refused to review the case.

It's up to the courts to decide if the public is protected from 
"monopoly" like practices (i.e. Apple Computers). This is a complex 
issue and long overdue to be challenged in court. Regardless, of the 
"emotions" of Apple friendly consumers.