Psystar to shut down 'immediately,' world shrugs

Has the saga finally come to an end? Dow Jones is reporting that Psystar will be firing its eight employees and then "shutting things down immediately," in the words of the company's attorney with the bad-ass name, Eugene Action. Besides, after the latest round of losses at the hands of Apple, this should come as a shock to nobody. Now that we've put all that behind us, can we concentrate on something of importance -- like Tweeting swears from the Zune HD Twitter app?

[Steve Jobs Posted Dec 18th 2009 8:53PM]

Owned.

[Sisyphus Posted Dec 18th 2009 8:55PM]

@Steve Jobs

Yeah seriously. I want my "investment" back.

[Steve Jobs Posted Dec 18th 2009 8:58PM]

@Bill Gates

I see you don't have an avatar yet.
How about this one?

http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/bill-gates-1983.jpg

[eugeneaction Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:04PM]

@Steve Jobs

sooo cozyyyyy

[fatslug Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:20PM]

Dissolute your old company, file the company for bankruptcy and pay Apple nothing. File as a new corporation and rinse repeat. The ruling was against Pystar not the owners of Pystar, I'll give it a week before we hear of the new company setting up shop selling mac clones.

[Steve Jobs Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:22PM]

@Bill Gates

Lol what's wrong with turtlenecks? They are comfortable....to me...

Also I tried to upload my avatar multiple times with Chrome (I was just testing it out for...fun..) and it didn't work. Try using a different browser. A good one I mean....not one that has the letter "e" as it's icon lol

[glenskey Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:24PM]

@(Unverified) can i just say this, everyone who is unverified --you know who you are-- please.. log out, log in, choose a name and from then on you will no longer be unverified.
thankyou.

[N900 Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:30PM]

@glenskey It only takes, like, 2 minutes..

[Nerdtalker Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:47PM]

@Steve Jobs Best first post ever. I wish there was some sort of official award you could be given.

[Steve Jobs Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:49PM]

@Bill Gates

My black and white picture, when juxtaposed alongside yours, gives the impression that I am a cold and calculating genius, and that you are my mellow, soft spoken, retiree arch-rival.
Good.

[Nerdtalker Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:50PM]

@Steve Jobs Unrelated, but apprently Pystar is *not* closing down immediately:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142494/Contrary_to_report_Psystar_i_not_i_shutting_down_lawyer_says
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/12/18/2346213/Psystar-Not-Closing-Up-Shop?art_pos=1

Fail.

[Linus Torvald Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:50PM]

@Steve Jobs
You can both suck my NUTS!
My Linuts!

[Steve Jobs Posted Dec 18th 2009 10:56PM]

@Linus Torvald

What is it today with impostors who can't spell their own (supposed) name correctly?
First Jon Rubinstein and now you too?

[Average White Boy Posted Dec 18th 2009 11:29PM]

@Steve Jobs

Good. There shall be only "one". Thall shalt not put any false gods before me. Another one bites the dust.

[Melinda Gates Posted Dec 19th 2009 12:27AM]

Bill, you and Steve can talk about this in the morning, now get off the PC and come to bed.

[Linus Torvald Posted Dec 19th 2009 12:33AM]

@Steve Jobs HEY Somebody took the freakin' s.
Wait don't you understand?
Ok...somebody took the iS out of my name!

[eugeneaction Posted Dec 19th 2009 12:35AM]

@Steve Jobs but seriously, isn't that a MAC in the background if Bill's office? cue the music

[Linus Torvald Posted Dec 19th 2009 1:27AM]

@Bill Gates
am i right?

[uShak Posted Dec 19th 2009 1:58AM]

@Steve Jobs

I Tried using Mozilla, IE, Opera, and Safari.
I still can't change my avatar.

[Daliminator Posted Dec 19th 2009 2:08AM]

@uShak old-school Netscape ftw!

[Bender Bending Rodriguez Posted Dec 19th 2009 2:12AM]

@Steve Jobs
You got first post with that name and pic and “owned” was the best thing you could come with for this topic? How about something recent...
“Not that big a deal. Change your business model.

Steve Jobs”

or something a bit esoteric...
“Lesser thieves get shut down; great thieves get away with it.”

or something older but well known like…
“Insanely pwned” or “BOOM!”

or something off colour…
“Be lucky I didn’t ask for your livers for settlement.”

[mtnDewFTW Posted Dec 19th 2009 2:25AM]

@Steve Jobs
ha yes

[Unverified Posted Dec 19th 2009 2:47AM]

@Steve Jobs

It's executive name time lol

[pk Posted Dec 19th 2009 3:35AM]

Damnit I was gonna get Eric Schmidt!! :(

[iFargle Posted Dec 19th 2009 3:49AM]

@Steve Jobs Funniest. Comments. EVER.

[kitsune Posted Dec 19th 2009 11:24AM]

@Steve Jobs
You guys are genius. Thank you for the laugh

[uShak Posted Dec 19th 2009 1:06PM]

@Daliminator

Dude, you are the man! Netscape totally worked!

[Jon Rubinsteine Posted Dec 19th 2009 1:28PM]

@Steve Jobs

Sorry Steve, it's all this multi tasking, goes straight to the brain,

There's no need to get pushy though..

[Eugene Action Posted Dec 19th 2009 5:30PM]

@Engadget I'll get you next time Gadget.... NEXT TIME....

[McKirdy Posted Dec 20th 2009 2:17AM]

@Bill Gates

Waitaminute, your commenting. Finally Changed? Wheee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZ0j7vtKEQ

[Jehryan Posted Dec 18th 2009 8:55PM]

GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY

[eugeneaction Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:05PM]

@Jehryan

its GREAT not GOOD

[Jehryan Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:08PM]

@(Unverified)

And I like grape jelly on my waffles

WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT

[yulebellow Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:06PM]

EIGHT employees! hahahahahahahaha!

[KirinIchiban Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:59PM]

@yulebellow
Now they can get back to their old gig making Dora the Explorer DVD torrents. My kids have been crying for weeks.

[prewreckless Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:08PM]

Move on folks, nothing to see here.

[CharlesLeaf Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:09PM]

I've actually read otherwise.

"Despite several sources reporting that post-indefinite-injunction Psystar was closing their doors for good, the company's lawyer is claiming that the company plans on going forward with PC sales, just not pre-loaded with Apple's OS X. Psystar plans on selling systems pre-loaded with "other operating systems," including Windows as well as selling their "Rebel EFI software" that allows consumers to load OS X on generic PCs."

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142494/Contrary_to_report_Psystar_i_not_i_shutting_down_lawyer_says

[baltwade Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:24PM]

@CharlesLeaf I was kind of hoping they would just release they're boot loader into the wild so that anyone could get it for free. It might be sour grapes, but I would do it.

[BigD145 Posted Dec 19th 2009 12:00AM]

@(Unverified) I would spell it "their", but that's just me.

[glenskey Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:11PM]

does anyone else imagine a slide whistle when you look at their logo?

it is very timely.

[FallenArms3 Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:15PM]

Eugene Action sounds like a Phoenix Wright character.

[U238Shell Posted Dec 18th 2009 11:05PM]

@FallenArms3 Hell yeah!!!

[Hraefn Posted Dec 19th 2009 2:55AM]

@FallenArms3 Eugene Action > Phoenix Wright

[KRISC123 Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:16PM]

Eugene Action. yeah that is a pretty bad ass name.

[shadowj0 Posted Dec 18th 2009 11:51PM]

@KRISC123

Yeah, it's among the greats such as Chad Ochocinco.

That's all I can think of for names of jokes.

[N900 Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:19PM]

Eugene Action?! That. Is. Awesome.

[Barkus Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:25PM]

Eugene Action... sounds like he used the Porn Name Generator a couple of times before getting it right.

[LogMonkey Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:31PM]

Finally it's over, now we can talk about gadgets. There's no reason to post another story about this crap right?

[eugeneaction Posted Dec 19th 2009 12:39AM]

@(Unverified)


rata tat tat ... DING!

[High Posted Dec 18th 2009 9:33PM]

woot woot! best news I heard all day. Bye bye Psystar your illegality surely won't be missed.