The ongoing debacle of Psystar just won’t go away much to Apple’s dismay. Apple tried to do what they prefer to do at first, which is ignore them and hope they’ll self-destruct. Early on that seemed to be the winning move as Psystar changed its location several times, had its capability of ordering through credit cards taken away, and put out its first computers to pretty much universal derision when they turned out to noisier than Obama/McCain supporters on Fox news.

Apparently Psystar continued selling enough machines to stay in business and Apple finally sued them perhaps thinking that their vaunted Death Star law firm would be scary enough to make them cry uncle. Instead Psystar did something unusual…they sued back claiming that Apple was an illegal monopoly in selling computers that ran OS X. I’ll leave the actual legality of the counter-suit to those that know more about the law than I do (which is pretty much anybody with a working knowledge of it) or the chance that this is an effective strategy in the long run, but it did seem to have the desired impact. Apple actually had to pull back and think about what it wanted to do next. Most lawyers outside of those on Boston Legal (Denny Craaaaane) will tell you that when you’re not sure exactly what to do when your opponent pulls a fast one you delay…delay…delay. Eventually it will all get sorted out and I’m curious what effect this will have on the Mac landscape when everything is said and done.

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