businessweek.com - 12/2/2009
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Apple has long been one of the staunchest defenders of intellectual property. Psystar would have done well to brush up on its Steve Jobs history
computerworld.com - 11/25/2009
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computerworld.com —
Computerworld - The Mac clone maker now fighting
for its life in federal court pitched an extremely...
aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011. According to a slide ...
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Psystar promised investors huge clone sales
computerworld.com - 12/2/2009
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computerworld.com —
Computerworld - Mac clone maker Psystar has agreed
to pay Apple nearly $2.7 million in a partial...
settlement approved by the federal judge who has overseen the 17-month case. Psystar has also halted sales of Intel-based clones with Mac OS X ...
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Psystar stops selling Mac clones with Apple's OS
appleinsider.com - 12/1/2009
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appleinsider.com —
Clone Mac maker Psystar has agreed to pay
Apple $2.7 million in damages in a deal that...
will likely bring the company's sale of unauthorized computers preinstalled with Mac OS X to an end.
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Psystar agrees to pay Apple $2.7M in settlement
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BusinessWeek’s Burrows: Psystar shouldn’t have messed with Apple
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... won't have to pay those damages until all appeals have been exhausted). And Camara says Apple's decision to drop a spate of remaining claims against Psystar—on trademark infringement, unfair competition, and others—shows Apple wants to end this saga as well. 'This [partial settlement] is too good to be true,' he says. 'I don't know why they did it,'" Burrows reports. "A bigger unknown for Psystar, though, is why its founders decided to take on Apple in the first place." Full article here . ...
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... “Lessons from the Apple-Psystar Battle: Apple has long been one of the staunchest defenders of intellectual property. Psystar would have done well to brush up on its Steve Jobs history” —Business Week ...
The Download Squad Brief: Apple v Psystar
Download Squad —
... As a result of that summary judgment, Psystar has now agreed to a settlement that is reported to be in excess of $2.5 million with Apple, but has signaled that it plans to keep pressing on with its appeal and the anti-trust case that it has launched against Apple in the Florida courts. Further, Psystar's settlement is only payable in the event that Psystar can't make its appeal stick, so the company is keeping its options open for further legal action. ...
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