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Apple Loses Motion to Block Mac OS X Copy Protection Secrets in Clone Case
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup denied Apple's motion to keep secret the technical information that describes how the company locks Mac OS X to its hardware. The federal judge reasoned that Apple's argument of "compelling trade secrets" was too weak to trump the public's right to judicial proceedings. Further, the federal judge noted that much of what Apple wanted to keep under wraps was, in fact, public knowledge, such that it was available on the Internet or could be uncovered by reverse engineering the Mac OS X code.
This motion was a part of the legal battles between Apple and the now-defunct Mac clone maker, Psystar. Among the secrets Apple asked the court to keep was Mac OS X's built-in copy protection. Previously, Apple had argued that Psystar circumvented that copy protection to install OS X on Mac clones.
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