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40hz:
The Psystar case should provide for some great courtroom melodrama. The best article I've seen on Apple's suit has been this one:

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62040943,00.htm

What I found interesting was this line from Apple's EULA (emphasis mine):
 
"This License allows you to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so."
--- End quote ---

Apple has made it abundantly clear that they do not want their OS running on anything other than their own hardware. When you load OS X, you have to agree to that term along with all the others in the EULA. Psystar would have to stand the entire software industry, and 90% of the legal precedents for software licensing, on it's ear to get around that. If the legal issues were as clear cut as Psystar would have us believe then half the PC industry would have marketed Mac-capable boxes years ago.

And while it is true that Apple has not (to date) gone after individuals, there is nothing preventing them from doing so using the same technology our highly respected and selfless music industry uses. ;)

Don't get me wrong. The whole concept of building a Hackintosh appeals to the old-school hacker in me. But I think its important to understand all the variables before you start getting into gray market tech. And also to realize that you're not legally in the clear just because you haven't been told not to do something.

nontroppo:
So the question is, does sticking an Apple (sticky) label on some hardware thus bypass the restriction?  :P

Lutz_:
KDE 4.1 is out, AFAICT:
http://www.linux.com/feature/142661

Dirhael:
KDE 4.1 is out, AFAICT:
http://www.linux.com/feature/142661
-Lutz_ (August 02, 2008, 08:08 PM)
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...and it's quite good, even great in some areas, as long as you don't have a NVIDIA GeForce 8/9 card (NVIDIA have been writing some really <insert not-so-positive adjectives here> *nix drivers for these cards when it comes to 2D and it doesn't look like it's about to change anytime soon). They are especially broken in anything KDE4/QT4 :( Let's just say that I'm not purchasing a high-end NV card again (I grabbed a 8800 when they first were released based on NVIDIA's history of actually having good *nix support) when it's time for a upgrade because at this point I get the impression that they don't even care.

zridling:
What Dirhael said. KDE 4.0 made the walls sweat in my house with my Nvidia card. Will try 4.1 someday with a different card.

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