Psystar, the company that makes and sells Mac clones, is the subject of a piece in SF Weekly. It talked to the young brothers behind the firm and asked them why they've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting Apple.
The boys loved to tinker. Robert vividly remembers his mom's fury when she came home to find the parts of a brand-new remote-control car spread across the living room floor. It had been disassembled down to the tiny plastic screws.
"I've always liked understanding how things work, I guess," Robert says, smiling, "even if I couldn't put it back together again afterward."
Some people write about Psystar as if it were an offense to nature—even to the point of defending EULAs, the one-sided and adhesive contracts we "agree" to when installing software. Other nuggets in the story include Psystar's claim that their work is original and different to that of other hackers ("The first thing you have to do is unlearn everything you've read online about how to make this work, because it's all wrong.") and an unusual response from an Apple spokesperson.
Worms in the Apple [SFWeekly]
