Cotty wrote:
On 4/3/04, GRAYWOLF disgorged:
Probably wouldn't make a difference if you were using Windows on a Power PC.
Actually I have heard tell that a PC virus will infect the Windows environment on a Mac running a PC emulator software. I have no idea how true that is.
HAR. Yes, the emulator software could translate the intel code virus to Power PC code. Useful little bugger, eh?
Most of the viruses are Intel specific, as well as Windows specific.
However you could run BSD on a PC and be safe. Same OS as yours without the cutesy
stuff added.
I watched too many cartoons as a kid.
BTW, do you know why they chose BSD rather than Linux for the basis of OS X?
Tom that's too technical for me. I'll just ask my mate Steve ;-)
Talk to your solicitor instead, it is a legal issue.
1. With Linux any changes they made to the code they would have to publish and provide the source code for. With BSD they just have to leave the copyright notices in.
2. Linux is too much of a moving target, it changes faster than anyone in Redmond could believe possible. Real upgrades 2-3 times a year, new stuff almost daily.
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