Hackintosh PC users everywhere will be watching this case. Hopefully Apple learns to think different on this one. Apple is missing a huge opportunity by not opening up the Mac OS to run on other platforms. Apple’s losing billions in revenue by not selling OSX separate from their cool Asus manufactured hardware.

Psystar, based in Doral, Fla., is challenging Apple’s requirement that only Apple-branded devices use its software, which Pystar contends illegally ties the sale of one product to another. That’s not the case with operating systems software from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) or the open source Linux, which can be installed on devices from any number of manufacturers, Psystar said.

Psystar made its claims at a press conference Tuesday, during which it said it will soon file a legal complaint against Apple alleging the Cupertino, Calif., computer maker is engaged in unfair competition and an attempt to monopolize and other violations of U.S. antitrust acts.

Psystar’s pending complaint is its formal response to a lawsuit Apple filed against it on July 3 claiming Psystar’s Open Computer desktop computers and servers violate Apple copyrights and trademarks. Pystar denied those allegations Tuesday.

“Our goal is to provide an alternative,” Psystar co-founder Rudolfo Pedraza said Tuesday.

via CNN

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