Apple Thoughts: Psystar v. Apple, An Update

"Florida-based Psystar and Apple will submit Tuesday a partial court settlement to the long-running Mac copyright-infringement legal battle, according to a report. Psystar, which had sold Mac clones based on Intel hardware with Apple's Mac OS X operating system pre-installed, will pay unspecified damages."

The latest in the legal battle that was set for a January 2010 showdown in court has Apple dropping most of it's legal challenge to Psystar. According to the paperwork, "This partial settlement eliminates the need for a trial and reduces the issues before this Court to the scope of any permanent injunction on Apple's copyright claims." So Psystar agrees to pay as yet to be named damages, but they haven't given up on the fight. In their paperwork they want to exclude their Rebel EFI application that allows Intel-based PCs to use Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, asking that it be excluded from any injunction that Apple is awarded. I like that they are willing to fight, what are your thoughts on their chances? Keep in mind this has been going on since July of 2008 and Psystar is still kicking, longer than I thought they would be around.