Psystar is the flea that wants that the dog is scratching. And this is silly. Psystar is the reason why Apple has problems with the existance of OSx86, if it would be used from private persons only they wouldn't care, I think. We should open an information web page that the OSx86 community does not agree with the way Psystar acts. BTW, Psystar does not have the copyright of the new drivers which are used in the OSx86 images. They are made for free use, but not to make money with it.

What we want is an free OS X which runs on x86-based machines as a stable alternative to Windows - Thousands of Linux derivates aren't the solution, at least not for me. The most people who are using OSx86 have not the money to buy a real Mac. For private persons OSx86 should be allowed. Free operating systems are the future, I hope Apple gets this, and not too late. Sun Microsystems changed their operating system 'Solaris' to 'OpenSolaris' which now anyone can use, and they are supporting OpenOffice. That's the way a company should act. If companies, computers and operating systems are connected too much it will become problematic sooner or later, we could see this on all the 80's and 90's home computer manufacturers, all are gone. I don't think Apple will happen this, but... hm, I think you get the point.

Anyway: Could Psystar have success with its efforts? In my opinion the copyright of OS X belongs to Apple, they developed the operating system. What do you think?

@Hara Taiki:

That's a question I'm asking myself for so long. Why it is so easy to get OSx86 running? I got the first Intel 10.4.4 image in November 2005, I had an early 10.4.5 running before the Intel Macs were out. Ok, with a lot of problems, but stable. I know a lot of curious copy-protections from C64 times, even protections for tapes were available. The operating system GEOS 2.0 used a 3-part copy protection which was nearly undetectable in the 2K RAM it was executed - it was the buffer of the external floppy drive. I think even today, with so many hackers, it would be possible to create a protection which would hold a bit longer. But Apple does anything like this - good for us. I think about further problems, especcially hardware-based. For example, the command set problems. The new Intel CPUs now have SSSE3, AMD Phenom has SSE4a. But if Apple would make heavy use of SSSE3 they wouldn't run on the first Intel Macs which hadn't this instruction set. So what problems

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