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Psystar Bros. profiled by Miami paper

The Miami New Times today profiles the Pystar founders and their goal to sell cloned Macs.  Obviously controversial in the Apple community, the paper paints a David vs. Goliath picture of the duo while getting a few of the facts slightly off.

For instance:

Robert cracked the code behind Apple Computer’s elegant operating system, OS X. It’s the engine that drives iPhones, MacBooks, and all the other shiny white toys the world loves. For more than a decade, the Silicon Valley firm has coded its operating system to work only on the firm’s expensive hardware.

Could be written as:

Robert used Hackintosh code..

Regardless of how you feel about Psystar, it is a somewhat interesting read, just to get a sense of the faces behind the company that is fighting Apple to install their OS on big black boxes.

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