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Apple says booting OS X makes an unauthorized copy

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 by John Sinteur in category: Intellectual Property -- Write a comment

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Groklaw has an extensive look at the latest developments in the Psystar vs. Apple story. There’s a nice picture illustrating the accusation by Apple that Psystar makes three unauthorized copies of OS X. The most interesting however, is the last copy. From Apple’s brief: “Finally, every time Psystar turns on any of the Psystar computers running Mac OS X, which it does before shipping each computer, Psystar necessarily makes a separate modified copy of Mac OS X in Random Access Memory, or RAM.

I retain the copyright in this weblog posting.

When you read it you are making unauthorized copies:
-The network stack
-The browser’s page cache
-The browser’s doctree for this document
-In your retina
-In your visual cortex, and
-In your memory.

There’s probably a reflection in your glasses as well, if you wear any.

  1. Add one for text-to-speech… :P

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