Apple, Psystar attorneys to meet in court
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 24, 2008 at 6:32pm
InformationWeek reports that lawyers for Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar will meet for the first time before a judge in October to discuss terms and procedures for Apple’s copyright lawsuit against Psystar, according to court records.
Apple is suing Psystar for violating its intellectual property rights. The suit was filed July 3 in U.S. District Court in Northern California.
Psystar announced on April 14 that it was planning to ship a US$399 expandable tower that is a “Leopard compatible Mac built from standard PC-parts and taking advantage of the osx86project to accomplish the task.” And last month the company announced a line of OpenServe rack-mount servers compatible with server operating systems such as Mac OS X Leopard Server, Microsoft Server 2003/2008, CentOS and Ubuntu Server.
Now attorneys from both companies will meet before U.S. District Court judge William Alsup at a case management conference slated for October 23 in San Francisco, according to the records. The case was originally scheduled to be heard by a magistrate judge but, in a sign of its importance to the computer maker, Apple requested that it be placed before a regular district court judge, notes Information Week.
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Laszlo Losonci Says:
Hi,
With all the consequences I think Psystar is right when say that Apple violating the the monopole law. There is no logic that we have to use OS X only in Apple computers.
In this case we are in the hand of I think the public has the right to chose what computer hardware he want buy; Apple or anything other with the same OS X.
I have an Ibook for example that bought for 1200 USD about. After 15- 16 months of use it brake because design problem and had to pay about 900 USD for repair.
If Psystar was exist it was not happen.
Next time I prefer buy an other hardware but why I can not have OS X in an other hardware?
Laszlo
Posted on September 23, 2008