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So the rumors swirling around would-be Mac clone maker Psystar are getting pretty wild out there — we’ve heard everything from “Apple has shut the company down” to “Psystar is going to challenge Apple’s EULA in court” in the vacuum following the company’s site meltdown yesterday. That’s a big spread, so we hit up Psystar’s president Rudy Pedraza for some answers. Rudy was relatively cagey on the phone, refusing to reply any questions about Apple’s EULA or copyrights — or even confirm whether Apple has talked with the company — but he told us that he’s got a “team” of citizens working on an official response and that the Open Computer (and the new quad-core Open Pro, pictured above) are still for sale. What’s more, he told us that “a few” orders placed before yesterday’s flood of interest have shipped, which means we’re curious to see whether any of these early adopters actually surface in the next few days. Rudy plus told us that Psystar isn’t

out to infringe any copyrights or trademarks (really?), and that he has no view how knowledge Week got a quote from someone named “Robert” indicating that the company was going to challenge Apple’s EULA in court. certain thing. Rudy promised us a machine either today or tomorrow, we’ll see what happens — honestly, it seems like things are chaos at Psystar’s HQ in Miami right now.

PS. -Remember MGM v. Grokster? In that case the Supreme Court ruled that a company that based its business around the knowing copyright infringement of customers was still liable, even whether it didn’t infringe directly. Kinda shoots a gap in the “just don’t pre-install Leopard” theory, no?

Read - Psystar Open Pro
Read - data Week (”Psystar vows to challenge Apple EULA”)
Read - DailyTech: (”Apple Kills Psystar’s $399 Mac”)

 

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Original post by Nilay Patel