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Apple confronts Wired over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial
appleinsider.com - 1/14/2009
Apple confronts Wired over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial
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A December video tutorial teaching viewers how to modify a netbook to run Mac OS X has landed tech magazine Wired in hot water with Apple's legal department.

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MacDailyNews:  Apple goes after Wired published over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial

bxchen: Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X. One hell of a way to start off the day.
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bxchen: Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac ...
— twitter.com — bxchen: Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X. One hell of a way to start off the day. (more) bxchen: Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video ...

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i.gizmodo.com - 1/15/2009
The Netbook Hackintosh Video Apple Made Wired Take Down [Apple]
— i.gizmodo.com — Gadget Lab writer and Giz friend Brian X. Chen said earlier today via Twitter that Apple "is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X." Updated . Update 2 : Wired got back to us. The official story is that they're not ... (more) The Netbook Hackintosh Video Apple Made Wired Take Down ...

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Apple goes after Wired published over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial
MacDailyNews — ... ago, Chen sent an update to his Twitter account: 'Just found out Apple is suing Wired for my video tutorial on hacking netbooks to run Mac OS X. One hell of a way to start off the day.' It later turned out that Chen misunderstood the situation, and a formal complaint has not been lodged with the US court system... Apple has most likely sent a cease-and-desist letter to Condé Nast Publications, Wired's parent company, rather than suing for monetary damages." More in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Judge Bork" for the heads up.] ...

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