Judge William J. Rea of the United States District Court in Los Angeles issued the ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the software maker Trio Systems.
Although virtually every operating system can be used both as host and as guest, running Mac OS X (Tiger) as a guest operating system in a virtual machine is currently prohibited by the software maker Apple Inc.
In a brief response, the company tells me that they will not comment on either this case or the complaint they've just filed against Google, revealing that the search giant is effectively already under legal attack by the software maker.
The Nasdaq rallied more than 1percentt, lifted by a rise in the software maker Oracle, which reported improved quarterly earnings.
Stocks chugged higher yesterday, led by technology issues like the software maker Adobe Systems, as investors noted the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that devastated Wall Street two years ago.
The disappointing news on earnings was compounded by reports yesterday that the Justice Department may try to resolve its antitrust case against the software maker by splitting Microsoft into two or more companies.
As they install the software, they are asked whether they would also like to show support for the software maker by shopping through an online affiliate program.
Helping fuel the debate was a widely published suggestion by Larry Ellison, the chief executive of the software maker Oracle, that the United States should establish a national I.D. system, embedding people's fingerprints on cards and creating a database so airport guards could check identities.
The former executive, Albert Bergonzi, became the sixth executive implicated in a scheme in which prosecutors said executives at the software maker HBO & Company overstated revenue by more than $300 million.
A second generation, led for many years by Movable Type and now dominated by WordPress, offered users the choice between installing server software onto their own (or leased) machines, or relying on a hosted service run by the software-makers on their own hardware.
"As a small firm you go unnoticed by the big software makers until you create something really special," said Robert Dewar, president of Ada Core Technologies, a small company that is based in New York.
