I'm surprised that so many people dismiss the legality of Psystar. Psystar is: - selling PCs - selling legal copies of OSX - patching copies *for inter

I'm surprised that so many people dismiss the legality of Psystar. Psystar is: - selling PCs - selling legal copies of OSX - patching copies *for interoperability* Now, reverse engineering and patching a product for interoperability is not generally believed to be illegal. Apple has two main arguments, the EULA and copyright infringement. From my European perspective, the EULA argument seems very weak. By EULA, Microsoft tried to prohibit sales of OEM CDs to private customers in Europe, and they got overturned in court. The reasoning was that it is not for a company to dictate what a customer will do with his property. The copyright argument seems stronger, except that an operating system is not a work of art or literature. You couldn't sell a painting with modifications, unless you have the permission of the artist. I'm pretty sure, however, that you could take a Mercedes engine, make minor modifications, put it into a BMW and sell the product, provided that the modifications are according to the customer's wishes.