Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by Aloha on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:32AM
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Lots of folks do it, no one is tries to make money off of it (or at least stops trying after the initial letters from IBM legal arrives).
Hercules is an interesting case because it's widely rumored to be used inside IBM to run modern System Z releases.
In this case however the company in question isn't just making and selling an emulator you can run iOS on, its selling hosted iOS as a service, which is a clear license violation - just making the emulator and instructions for use available for sale would be quite legal.
Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by fragmede on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:19AM
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The Psystar case (or at least, my read of Apple's opinion of that situation), implies that Apple (circa early 2000s) considers making such an emulator available would not legal.
Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by Aloha on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:09PM
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The issue with the Psystar people was they were selling configured systems loaded with software, not a kit the end user would assemble themselves.
Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by pankajdoharey on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:29AM
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Well no one can make illegal copies of Windows, its the same with iOS.
You can run z/OS just fine on Hercules (mainframe emulator) but IBM does not allow it, and for this reason no one does it.
Given the potential profit in providing emulated z/OS hardware, the fact that no one provides this is quite telling.