As denoted yesterday, the Psystar topic seems to be a little fishy. First: obviously they use the EFI v8 emulation developed by Netkas. For comprehensible reasons Netkas is not amused about Psystar and decided to edit his EULA to bar commercial use of PC EFI – well… we don’t expect Psystar to respect Netkas’ EULA, but not Apple’s EULA?! Psystar just don’t respect any EULA – quite simple. In the end, they don’t seem to care anyway – no matter if it’s Netkas’ EULAs or Apple’s EULAs. We all know Netkas can’t be bribed, but nevertheless Psystar should think about helping the community in return…
The second thing fishy is, Psystar had three different postal address in the last four days. Yes, three addresses. Users living in Miami could not locate the company under even one of these. There are rumors, that this company doesnot exist at all and is hoax. ‘Tune in tomorrow for the next episode of “Where Will The Little Green Mac Clone Be Next?”‘ (Guardian). And in the meantime: Apple just doesn’t react at all to the whole story…
» Netkas prohibits commercial use of PC EFI v1 – v8…
» Guardian.co.uk: Psystar on the move again…
And why should Psystar care about breaking the licence of a software which assumably is a licence break by itself? ;-)
Netkas’ EFI to BIOS emulator seems not to break the licence of Apple. The EFI emulator is a developed by Netkas on the basis of the Darwin bootloader, that is released by Apple under the APL (Apple public license).
» http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource
The problem might be the integrated dsmos.kext which emulates the “Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext”:
» http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/binaryprotection/