Apple har lämnat in en stämning mot Corellium, ett företag som jobbar med virtualiseringslösningar och som bland annat erbjuder lösningar för iOS. Apple skriver i sin stämning att Corellium olagligt kopierar iOS.

Apple menar att eftersom Corellium skapar en miljö där iOS kan köras på annan hårdvara än Apples så är det en olaglig kopia.

Corellium’s business is based entirely on commercializing the illegal replication of the copyrighted operating system and applications that run on Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and other Apple devices. The product Corellium offers is a “virtual” version of Apple mobile hardware products, accessible to anyone with a web browser.

Specifically, Corellium serves up what it touts as a perfect digital facsimile of a broad range of Apple’s market-leading devices–recreating with fastidious attention to detail not just the way the operating system and applications appear visually to bona fide purchasers, but also the underlying computer code. Corellium does so with no license or permission from Apple.

Correlium gör även en kopia av iTunes som ingår i deras tjänst.

On information and belief, Corellium makes no effort whatsoever to confine use of its product to good-faith research and testing of iOS. Nor does Corellium require its users to disclose any software bugs they find to Apple, so that Apple may correct them. Instead, Corellium is selling a product for profit, using unauthorized copies of Apple’s proprietary software, that it avowedly intends to be used for any purpose, without limitation, including for the sale of software exploits on the open market.

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