Psystar Not Closing Down Business [Mac Clones Seller Won’t Go Down Despite Permanent Injunction]

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If you love technology you must have surely heard about Psystar, a little company that decided to play God and sell cheap Mac clones to anyone interested. You can guess what happened next, can’t you? Apple filed a suit against Psystar, Psystar filed a suit against Apple and after more than a year of hearings the court sided with Apple, granting them a permanent injunction against Psystar.

In other words Psystar isn’t allowed anymore to sell any PCs running Mac OS X anymore. Most people have assumed that Psystar will go out of business considering that it has lost its primary object of activity but one of Psystar’s lawyers said that the company is not shutting down permanently.

Attorney K.A.D. Camara, of the Houston, Texas firm Camara & Sibley LLP said that “Regrettably, Mr. Action was misquoted in an early story that seems to have been picked up elsewhere” and that “Psystar does not intend to shut down permanently.” Mr. Camara is referring to a statement made by Eugene Action, a Fresno, California lawyer who represented Psystar in the lawsuit filed by Apple with a San Francisco federal court last year.

What will Psystar do now that it can’t sell any PCs running Apple’s Mac OS X? The company has to comply with the injunction until midnight, December 31, 2009 and it has to do so as quickly as possible. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup made everything clear when it granted Apple the injunction against Psystar: “Defendant must immediately begin this process, and take the quickest path to compliance.”

Psystar has already taken down its website and it has already stopped sales of Intel-based clones. Furthermore, Psystar agreed to pay Apple about $2.7 million should it lose the appeals which it’s going to file with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

With these in mind, it’s hard to think that Psystar will have a business in the very near future so I’m really curios what the company will do in order to stay open. People assume that Psystar will continue to sell Rebel EFI, a software solution that lets users install Mac OS X on any machine. That way it will comply with the court’s ruling while passing the responsibility of installing Mac OS X on non-Apple computers to end users.