“In a joint filing from Apple and Psystar Corporation in a San Francisco court Tuesday, Psystar agreed to pay Apple $1,337,500 in damages over copyright infringement, breach of contract, and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” Hughes reports. “Additional damages and attorneys fees amounted to another $1,337,500, bringing the total to $2.675 million. Psystar had already lost those complaints in a summary judgment from Judge William Alsup in November.”
Hughes reports, “In exchange for the payout, Apple has agreed to not refile claims of trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, state unfair competition, and common law unfair competition — items that were not ruled on by Alsup in his summary judgment.”
More info in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple will see that full $2.675 million payment on the twelfth of never.
Chapter 11 here they come.
I wonder if Psystar also agreed not to sell the RebelEFI software? Or are Apple going to sue them for that separately.
Apple won’t see the money. But officially, Psystar is paying damages. This is a big club to hold over the head of any other outfit that tries the same crap, especially one that has the money to pay the damages.
——RM
Chapter 11? They can’t claim chapter 11 because they sought that in the beginning and then said never mind. So I believe that option is no longer available to Psystar. What a shame, IDIOTS!!!!
It’s the deterrent value that will more than pay for the legal fees.
Take notice that all machines with OS X preinstalled are said to be “out of stock” on Psystar’s site.
Wow. Psystar must have sold those 768 PCs for something like $4,000 a pop!
Sweet. A tech company judgement value in leet-speak.
Selling only 768 PC (according to a story posted on MDN) means each PC sold cost Psystar $3,515.62!
Now THERE’S a business model for clone makers to copy.
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Plus lawyer fees and court costs.
Apple will not see a dime of this money, but Psystar is DEAD.
@The Other Steve
1,337,500 / 768 = $1,741.54 per box… the other 1.3 million is for Additional damages and attorneys fees.
Assuming 768 is the official amount of boxes sold
That’s the deal! Send the 768 owners a bill for $1,400.00 if they want to continue using Mac OSX
and that’s a long long time.
right… this is absolute crap…
Psystar doesn’t *have* 2.7 million.
As MDN says: ‘Apple will see this on the 12th of Never.’
Psystar is “Out of Stock?”
More like “Out of Cash” and “Out of Luck!”
“Selling only 768 PC (according to a story posted on MDN) means each PC sold cost Psystar $3,515.62!”
And they say that Mac hardware is overpriced!
Next up.
Where is Psystar going to get $2.7 million? At this point, they probably don’t even have $2.7 thousand.
Psystar should simply sell competitively priced, easy to hackintosh PCs and let the osx86 community take it from there. Install linux on them. Quit selling Rebel EFI; Empire EFI does just as good of a job. Let Apple deploy its army of lawyers against the dozens of forums who advocate this and the tech journalists who show the general public how to do so.
Psystar is then off the hook, Apple gains bad press and internet emnity for its crackdown (‘F#@K the RIAA!’ style) and many will get to enjoy the reasonably priced headless iMac that they’ve been clamoring for without having to put it together.
Apple is a PR misstep or two away from becoming the next Microsoft.
Bang on the money clyde2801 – especially about Apple becoming the next Microsoft.
I would go further and say Apple’s legal action wasn’t really targeted at Psystar – it was the CUSTOMER Apple wanted to lock-up and lock-in.
@ clyde2801 and TwentyBenson:
Finally some sanity in the discussion here, and someone brave enough to state the obvious–Apple is SCARED big time, and they know they’re going to LOSE in Florida–probably lose their shirts against Psystar’s iron-clad case for freedom to do what WE want with what WE buy, legally and openly!! Apple’s reign of terror–otherwise known as anti-competitive monopolistic practices of illegally tying OSX to Apple hardware–is soon to be over, and the masses who have been clamoring for OSX will FINALLY be able to have it on whatever hardware they want, like Psystar’s industry-leading, reasonably priced, high QUALITY boxes!!
Go Psystar!!
hahahahahahahahahaa!. broke pystar employee/ceo astroturfing eh?
@Rattlemouse…for a second I honestly didn’t know if you were over the top agreeing with me or sarcastically trolling…
I’ve never bought a psystar computer, so I honestly don’t know about their quality. Apple has some great designs, but they buy their components from factories in china just like everyone else. An apple fujitsu hard drive doesn’t have magic pixie dust or special sauce on it compared to one going in a windows box.
I still maintain my earlier point about apple being a pr misstep or two away from being perceived as the next microsoft. I’m confident that its need for profits and its passion to control every aspect of the user’s experience will get it there.