Psystar business as usual: still online
p2pnet news view | Products:- “After being ordered by a federal judge on Tuesday to stop selling its Mac clones, Psystar’s Web site is now inaccessible,” reported CNet News yesterday, going on:
“Dow Jones Newswires is reporting that the company is going out of business.”
And, “Well short of its second anniversary, the Florida-based Mac cloner’s online presence has gone the way of the dodo, which probably means the company itself is no more, as well,” says Mac.Blorge today, going on:
“Well, at least we can hope as much. PsyStar.com is no longer responding. Given that company largely existed only online — they could come back — it seems entirely possible this could be the end for the hackintosh.”
Was that wishful thinking? Because at 9:15 am, Pacific, the site was online and fully functional, and it was business as usual, as far as we could see.
As p2pnet said recently, “Apple says does it doesn’t want Psystar selling its inexpensive, cloned Mac software or hardware ever again.
“Not ever !”
“Psystar attorney Eugene Action told Dow Jones earlier Friday that founder and president Rudy Pedraza will be ’shutting things down immediately,’ and that all eight employees will be let go,” says CNet.
However, “Contrary to a report on Thursday by the Dow Jones Newswire, Psystar is not shutting down for good, said K.A.D. Camara, of the Houston, Texas firm Camara & Sibley LLP,” says Computerworld, going on >>>
Camara represents Psystar in a lawsuit the company filed in a Miami federal court last August that accuses Apple of violating several antitrust laws.
The Dow Jones story quoted Eugene Action, a Fresno, Calif. lawyer who represented Psystar in the lawsuit Apple filed with a San Francisco federal court in 2008. ‘They will not be in business,’ Action said, adding that Psystar President Rudy Pedraza would be “shutting things down immediately” by firing the company’s eight employees.
However, “Camara told Computerworld by e-mail today, ‘Regrettably, Mr. Action was misquoted in an early story that seems to have been picked up elsewhere. Psystar does not intend to shut down permanently’.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
CNet News – Report: Psystar closes up shop, December 18, 2009
Mac.Blorge – PsyStar website goes dark, company officially calls it quits, December 19, 2009
p2pnet – Ban Psystar forever: Apple, November 26, 2009
Computerworld – Contrary to report, Psystar not shutting down, lawyer says, December 18, 2009
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December 19th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
The site may still be online, but there are no hackintosh pc’s for sale on there anymore!
December 19th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Ya but one can still download Rebel EFI and I just did. Now I just downloaded OSX and I am going to run it on one of my PC.
December 20th, 2009 at 4:15 am
It worked! OSX is running on one of my box! all the drivers are OK, everything work good!
Now that was just for trying. However I am not sure I want to run OSX.
Still I will be burning a disk image of the partition for easy reinstall.
December 21st, 2009 at 6:13 am
Is that an evaluation version? what are the restrictions?