Can do with it what it likes
Anti-Apple outfit Psystar's latest legal argument against Jobs' Mob is that it bought his
software fair and share and can jack it under the bonnet of any hardware it
likes.
After a judge rejected Psystar's antitrust argument the Florida clone
maker was allowed to amend its claims against Apple to include other
arguments.
So far we have already seen claims that Apple is abusing its
copyright on the operating system, that it has not patented the software
correctly and now it plans to argue that since Psystar legally purchased its
copies of Mac OS X from Apple and resellers, it has the right to do basically
whatever it wants with that software under the first-sale law.
Legal eagles
think that Psystar might be barking up the wrong tree with this argument as no
one has ever agreed that 'first sale' law applies to software. This is because
it is licensed and not sold.
Apple and Psystar are scheduled to meet next
week to discuss the case and the latest arguments, we can almost hear the
Cupertino outfit's briefs laughing from Europe .