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Re:Airyx OS by orionblastar on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:51PM (#28069665)
Darwin can run limited MacOS applications provided they don't use a proprietary Apple MacOS library. Airyx is so limited and doesn't have a lot of users to be worth suing over I think.
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Re:Airyx OS by Bilal_io on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:20AM (#28069827)
Probably cheaper and easier for apple to kill them while small/young
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Re:Airyx OS by michaelmrose on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:07AM (#28074781)
They haven't done anything illegal or immoral. Giant company tries to use nonsense lawsuits to illegally destroy competition doesn't make for great PR.
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Re:Airyx OS by nobleach on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:36PM (#28077722)
Yeah, if they took the path of ARDI's Executor from the 90's, it IS possible to have a completely clean-room emulation (of Apple) without violating any intellectual property.
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Re:Airyx OS by nine_k on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:56AM (#28071659)
They are no threat to Apple; Apple's business is selling hardware, with software bundled to it.

This is no more menace to them than ReactOS for Microsoft.

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Re:Airyx OS by michaelmrose on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:51PM (#28076285)
A natural pivot if the software was successful would be to start selling the hardware with the software putting them in direct competition. After all people generally don't buy OS they buy computers.
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Re:Airyx OS by nine_k on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:26AM (#28084925)
Exactly. Do people sell computers with ReactOS?

OTOH Wine, properly improved and adjusted, sort of made a dent in the market in the form of Steam game consoles.

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