Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

[Hamlin Krewson]

The lawsuit started off with the Beige G3 support and grew from there 
(IIRC). The basic premise is that when apple stated that the computers 
in question met the minimum requirements for OS X, and that they 
(Apple) would support the OS on those computers that they were somehow 
making a claim that the OS would fully support all hardware features.

Problem is, Apple only ever claimed that OS X would run on the 
computers in question and not that it would work with all hardware 
features (ie. the AV cards in Beige G3 systems).

I think they also run into problems where not everyone who purchased OS 
X were able to get it to install on the computers. A good number of 
these can be attributed to additions/modifications that the installer 
is not expecting (or designed to work with).

I don't know how this affects the laptops (as I mentioned, it installed 
fine on my Lombard), but on the Beige G3 it meant that if you'd 
installed any internal SCSI device then the OS probably wouldn't 
install.

Hamlin

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