Psystar, a small vendor that sells the third party "Open Computer" formerly known as OpenMac computer that runs apple's OSs, is hitting back after being taken to court by the fruit for licensing violations. They don't deny violation of license restrictions by putting OS X and its diaspora on non-apple machines, but instead contend that the forced packaging of hardware and software in Macs, combined with the premium Apple charges for said computers, constitutes a monopoly. Machines that run Windows, they argue, and for that matter all other OSs currently on the market, do not constitute a credible source of competition for the Apple hardware market due to rabid Mac OS fanboiism.
IMHO, though it's a long shot, if these guys succeed in putting a crack in Apple's totalitarian Mac strategy, it would be the third best thing to happen to the company.
The second would be if Bloomberg magically made everything it publishes come true, and the first, of course, would be a cruise missile.
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Damn, if Apple were forced to let people use its OS on non-Apple hardware, that would be incred. They'd have to make it a better and more versatile OS, though; otherwise I think it would expose a lot of flaws. The only reason Apple can claim OS X is so stable, obvi, is that they restrict it to their own hardware. Cheaters.
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