Will Psystar Represent A Key Case Concerning Enforceability Of EULAs?
A few weeks back, a company named Psystar made some news by offering to sell PCs with Mac OS X installed. This raised questions about how legit this offer was. After all, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple years back, he killed off all licensing deals that allowed any kind of Mac clones. However, the company has been showing off the clones it’s created. Now, the questions are all about whether or not Psystar’s actions are legal. The company (of course) says it is legal, and that it’s buying a legal copy of the operating system and installing it on PC hardware. However, the end user license agreement (EULA) includes the following: “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.” That would seem to preclude what Psystar is doing. The News.com article above does an excellent job laying out
