Supply Snag Slows Down Mac Cloner
from the getting-around-the-hurdles dept
Back in April there was a story making the rounds about a guy in Minnesota looking to get around Apple's anti-cloning policies by building Mac clones out of used and repair shop parts, while letting customers buy and load their own MacOS. So far, the Apple lawyers haven't come up with a valid reason to shut him down, but they are going after his suppliers. He's stopped production after Apple threatened the company that sold him motherboards, saying it violated their contract. The guy says he's negotiating with a new supplier, but Apple will probably stop them as well. Who knew there were licensing issues for hardware as well? Whatever happened to the rights of ownership? If you bought a product you could then turn around and sell it to whoever you wanted?
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On the other hand, if you try to give away or sell your Microsoft software, read the fine print. hahahahah
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Isn't this similar to what M$ was accused of doing
Why does Apple get away with doing this ?
just curious.
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Mac-in-the-box
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