Psystar is easily the most confused company of 2009. First they sell Hackintoshes and basically dares Apple to say something. Yeah, that’s about as safe as sticking a hornet’s nest down their pants and thinking absolutely nothing will happen. Then when Apple won an injunction against Psystar, their awesomely named lawyer Eugene Action announced that Psystar was not shutting down.

While Psystar took down their cheaper Mac clones (read: Hackintosh) but kept up their Rebel EFI software, it seemed like Apple had won and the very small company that thought they could convince the world that Apple’s injunction did not include Rebel EFI, their software that allows for the install of OS X onto most Intel based computers did not fall under the injunction.

Wrong. But not simply because of Apple. The OSx86 Community and Netkas have publicly called Psystar “liars” and have stated that Rebel EFI is based on their efforts to bring Apple OS X to a multitude of Intel configurations.

So then after not being able to sell Rebel EFI, Psystar vows a spectacular comeback and starts to sell… wait for it, t-shirts. Yes, t-shirts is definitely the savior of a confused company like Psystar.

Of course, this quickly changed to a new solution for the befuddled company… they will resume selling hardware, but with Linux.

Earlier this month, Psystar suspended all sales of its hardware products, honouring the court’s decision which favoured Apple. This week, Psystar has also temporarily halted sales of Rebel EFI while the former clone maker confirms the tool’s legality with the court. Psystar also announced it will continue hardware sales in the coming days – with Linux rather than Mac OS X.

So a company that’s been known to sell potentially community sourced software for a profit, that tried to sell computers to many people cheaper than Apple – and many deliveries did not happen – then went on to sell t-shirts (yes, t-shirts) has decided to sell Linux based systems… yeah. Linux. Systems.

Psystar, you’ve won the most confused company of 2009. Good luck with the Linux systems. I know that you will change your mind within a few days.

[ OSNews, ComputerWorld, The Consumerist ]