Apple is finally getting around to suing pseudo-Mac vendor Psystar, who has been producing OS X machines on PC hardware for a few months now.

This shouldn't be much of a case. Apple's pack of lawyers most certainly has a huge arsenal of broken agreements and patent infringements as well as more than enough time and muscle to bury an obscure system vendor/IT consulting service from Florida.

You have to wonder if Saint Steve might be getting soft in his old age, though. It wasn't but a few years ago that Apple was the most-feared intellectual property owner on the block. They went after people who copied their products, they went after people who copied their names. Hell, they'd go after you for suggesting to a friend that you want to name your new business after a piece of fruit.

Any poor soul who was selling anything that had "i" "pod" or a bright color in its name would get fired a cease-and-decist letter from Apple legal before they could even ship a box out of the garage.

These days, you have the suits in Cupertino just sitting on their duffs while Psystar makes Mac clones and Dell ships "Dock" software and Samsung even has the audacity to strut around with a phone that has a touch-screen.

Yep, someone over at Apple legal is getting real soft...

16 Jul 2008