clone maker

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed charges from Mac clone maker Psystar accusing Apple of running a monopoly. Psystar sued Apple in U.S. District Court claiming violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act.

The Doral, Fla.-based Psystar accused Apple of forcing a tie between the Mac OS X operating system and Apple's hardware in the end-user licensing agreement. Psystar argued that Apple's EULA unlawfully restrained trade by barring users from installing its operating system on non-Apple hardware.

Macintosh clone maker Psystar is feeling the heat. In a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco on July 3, Apple Computer asked the court to "[require] Psystar to recall all such products sold to the public as a result of Psystar's infringement of Apple's copyrights."