Apple Sues Pystar
From AppleInsider:
While details of the suit are unclear at this time, AppleInsider has learned that Apple and its counsel at Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP filed the suit on grounds of copyright infringement.
Well, duh.
A representative for the company, identified only as Robert, would later go on record and challenge Apple to bring formal charges against his firm, arguing that the Mac OS X end-user license agreement, which prohibits third-party installations of Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, stands in violation of antitrust laws.
No it doesn’t. You can buy (or get for free) other operating systems from a variety of vendors.
“What if Microsoft said you could only install Windows on Dell computers?,” he said. “What if Honda said that, after you buy their car, you could only drive it on the roads they said you could?”
It’s more like Starbucks saying they’ll only put their syrup in my latte. They can’t stop me from getting it without syrup and putting my own in later, but you can bet that they would sue a competing coffee shop who sold Starbucks coffee with non-Starbucks syrups. My stupid analogy beats your stupid analogy.
This misguided concept of proprietary equating to monopoly baffles me.