I smell a rat turd in the grain bin.

Little Psystar (pronounced: SIS-ter) is countersuing Apple. They’re using the tired old reasoning that Apple is using anti-competitive tactics. Apple is unfairly tying its operating system to its hardware.

By not allowing other hardware manufacturers to run OS X, Apple has created a monopoly.

First of all, that’s just stupid. If that stands up in court, it’s time to purge the legal system. Well, okay, we already knew that anyway, but accusing Apple of monopolistic practices on a planet that has a Microsoft is like Russia accusing the U.S. of warmongering.

My real question is, who’s backing those yay-hoos? They don’t have a snowball’s chance in Baghdad of winning. What the hell are they trying to prove? And who’s bankrolling them? The fact that they’re still in business tells me they’ve found some deep pockets somewhere. And those deep pockets are interested in testing Apple’s EULA.

How can anyone accuse Apple of being a monopoly or of being involved in anti-competitive behavior? The computer market has to be pretty narrowly defined for Apple to be counted as owning 10% of it. Purt-near the whole rest of the world is operating a version of Windows, plus a splash of Linux. I don’t know how 10% of anything gets to be worthy of anti-trust litigation.

If there’s a lick of sense in our legal system:

1. Little Psystar will be out of business. Soon.

2. Little Psystar will pay the legal fees for the summary judgment of their asinine lawsuit.

3. Apple’s lawsuit will follow on with criminal charges against Little Psystar for wrongly profiting from Apple’s intellectual property.

4. The owners of Little Psystar will be jailed and spend their first years out of jail paying back legal fees.

The whole thing is ridiculous. I’ll bet my collection of Tito Puente records a careful investigation will turn up some money - or at least the promise of support - from another tech “major player” in Little Psystar’s back pocket.

This thing stinks to high heaven.

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I would never accuse Dell or Microsoft of that sort of slimy, gutless, underhanded fraud though. I just wouldn’t.

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Apple is growing their presence in the enterprise market by continuing to build better computers. Saying I told you so is unfashionable and rude, but I told you so.

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$275

12/31/2008

It’s not too late to ride the wave.

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Nurse! Press that button again!

That’s better.

Hold my calls.