It's crazy enough that a company would go up against any gargantuan company, let alone a giant that was famous for it's sue-happy nature, one like Apple Inc. But that's exactly what one start-up, Psystar of Florida, did a year or so ago when it decided to start building and selling unauthorized OS X based Mac clones.
Even more crazy, that after filing for bankruptcy protection, that it claimed it needed because big, bad old Apple was putting an unfair financial burden upon them for suing them, they then turned around and insanely rubbed salt in Apple's wounds by introducing even more Mac clones!
Well, Apple clearly wasn't in the mood for playing silly games, so it appealed to the courts, asking to see Psystar's business records for it's case, but Psystar insanely said no, because, well - they had a perfectly sane reason - they didn't bother to keep any business records! Apple, of course, basically said "your nuts" and appealed to have it's case against Psystar proceed without any more silly delays, something that the bankruptcy proceedings would have normally given Psystar.
Of course, no rational judge in his right mind would agree to Psystar's silly assertion that it didn't keep any business records, so the judge promptly awarded Apple it's request, meaning it's case could immediately proceed without any further silly delays.
Well, speaking of silly, Psystar, who didn't find it necessary to keep any business records, and after filing for bankruptcy because it claimed it had no money, did what any company who was out of their cotton-picking minds would do - they just proudly introduced brand spanking new Xeon Hehalem based Mac clones for sale!
Gizmodo's, that great site on technology, says that it doesn't know what to think, stating:
"Psystar's been subject to all manner or canonization, criticism, popular support and backlash, but now I don't know what to think. On the one hand, all their talk about monopolies, freedom and victimization always stuck me as a little hollow. (David and Goliath? So you're going to kill Apple?) On the other, it now appears as though the guys who run Psystar are either clinically insane, extremely persistent, unusually ballsy or just poorly advised to an extreme. Or all of the above. As Mark said on the story, "they wont stop unless Apple cuts off their hands. And even then, who knows." That spirit alone has got to be worth something, right?"
Well, maybe Gizmodo's not too sure what to think, but I sure do and it's simple - Psystar's crazy! So crazy, in fact, that they are totally insane - that's what I think! What else can you call a company that behaves in the crazy way that Psystar does, acting like the courts and Apple practically don't exist! Psystar, as Gizmodo said, is acting like nothing really happened and there's nothing, absolutely nothing for them to worry about, so it's business as usual!
Let me see here. First, Psystar steals Apple's intellectual property, totally ignores the courts and then acts like Apple is the bad guy in all of this, and that they are the good guys, the little innocent David who heroically battle's the big bad boy, Goliath - I mean, think about it - how crazy is that? With Psystar acting stranger and stranger and seemingly more so, with each passing day now, I'm really beginning to think that Apple's assertion that someone, or some group, is really behind Psystar. The more I think about it, the more it doesn't seem like such a crazy idea after all!
So, in conclusion, I can only conclude that one day, and someday in the future, when you look up in the dictionary for the meaning of the words crazy, or insane, etc. you'll probably see Psystar's name illustrated as an example, because, quite frankly, they are so damn crazy that I think that they are completely insane and absolutely nuts!
And that's my 2 cents 4 this Thursday, July 02, 2009
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