Contrary to Dow Jones Newswire's Thursday report about Mac clone maker Psystar shuttering down for good after recently losing the legal battle against Apple, the company's lawyer K. A. D. Camara has clarified that though the company's Web site has been turned off, the company does not intend closing down permanently.

In a motion filed by clone computer maker Psystar’s attorney on Monday, a ‘partial settlement’ had been worked out in the copyright infringement lawsuit that consumer electronics biggie Apple had filed against Psystar in July last year.

Psystar, the manufacturer of Mac OS X clones, who has recently been dragged to court by Apple, had initially targeted to actually put Apple out of business by claiming that it would sell about 12 million units of its version of the popular PC every year, a report by Gregg Keizer of Computerworld on the sales projections that Psystar made to prospective investors, has revealed.

Citing `economic factors' amid the downturn, the Miami-based `maverick' startup Psystar last week filed for bankruptcy. Psystar's bankruptcy filing implies that Apple's ongoing lawsuit against the controversial firm - for flouting Apple's Mac OS X licensing terms by doggedly selling Mac clones like Open Computer - would be greatly affected.

An intimidating legal action from Apple has, in no way, deterred the beleaguered Macintosh clone vendor Psystar! Steadily working out its new products' graph, the company Wednesday released its fourth new system called "Open 3."