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Hackintosh maker Psystar files for bankruptcy

by Scott Bicheno on 27 May 2009, 12:40

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Psystar is a company that makes, among other things, PCs with Apple's Mac OS pre-installed (otherwise known as a hackintosh), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

This move coincides with ongoing legal action brought against it by Apple, which doesn't like Mac OS being installed on non-Apple systems.

While the case doesn't seem to have been specifically referred to as the reason for the filing (there's currently no information about this on the Psystar website), it's not inconceivable that Psystar is looking to protect itself from the damages award that would come from losing the Apple case.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows businesses to continue trading while protecting them from creditors. It could be that Psystar is hoping the case comes to a conclusion while the protection is in place and that Apple has to join the creditor queue to get its damages, if which it's likely to get a fraction.

Psystar appears to still be selling PCs with Mac OS installed.

 

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Posted by Biscuit - Wed 27 May 2009 13:40
What did they think was going to happen when the started selling them?
Posted by hermano pequeño - Wed 27 May 2009 14:15
Biscuit
What did they think was going to happen when the started selling them?

Chapter 11 sounds interesting - protection from the people who you are being prosecuted by, while you continue to do what they're prosecuting you for… could be a case of precedence, and I would expect Apple to throw armies of lawyers at it.

Top marks for being seriously cheeky though! :bowdown:
Posted by shaithis - Wed 27 May 2009 14:41
He doesn't deserve the credit IMO.

While I do not agree with Apples stance on OSX (and even run it *unmodified* on my own PC occasionally), making a profit from it seems wrong, especially when Psystar were not selling retail boxes with their PCs (this may have changed now with the lawsuit)….
Posted by loki - Wed 27 May 2009 17:54
I have sympathy for Psystar. Not in the way they have goen about it but I can't understand why Microsoft gets record fines for bundling IE with Windows yet Apple act in a more protentionist and monopolistic way yet it seems they are entirely allowed to do so. I'm 100% certain there will be legal stance on why they can but I just don't understand it.

If someone in the know wanted to explain it to me then I'd be deighted to understand why.
Posted by Gordy - Wed 27 May 2009 19:19
loki
I have sympathy for Psystar. Not in the way they have goen about it but I can't understand why Microsoft gets record fines for bundling IE with Windows yet Apple act in a more protentionist and monopolistic way yet it seems they are entirely allowed to do so. I'm 100% certain there will be legal stance on why they can but I just don't understand it.

If someone in the know wanted to explain it to me then I'd be deighted to understand why.


You cannot be a monopoly if you don't have nearly all the market share and when there are other equally good choices out there. Choosing to only sell your software with your hardware is not and never will illegal.

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