At 10:29 AM -0600 01/04/2006, Peter da Silva wrote:
I think there's a difference between running OS X on systems that
aren't supported by OS X but were licensed for Mac OS, and running
it on systems that have no connection however tenuous to Apple.
The retail version of the OS comes with a full license.
The only license that's "intrinsic" to the Mac hardware is for its
original shipped-with version.
And since that whole anti-trust bruhaha with MS,,, PCs can now be
sold without any OS license at all. You just add a retail purchase
to them...
Retail == shrinkwrapped off-the-shelf OS package. Not an upgrade,
and not necessarily retail price. And not a gray pull from a Mac
either.
I would love to run OS X on a Thinkpad. I am completely underwhelmed
by Apple's laptops regardless of what processor they're using, and I
would happily pay a premium for an OS X license for a Thinkpad...
but it's a bit of a stretch to call it merely an unsupported
platform.
I think this year will be interesting. The hackers are going to be
working hard to get around whatever Apple does to lock OS X to it to
their motherboards... Once they get a handle on it (and I really
think they will eventually), I think it will become something of an
escalating war: Hackers fix OS X, Apple breaks it, fix, break, fix,
break...
Keep OS X locked to Macs == Keep the Mac as a small niche market.
Open OS X to all x86 PCs == Explode OS X onto the scene, scare the
pants of MS, and take over the laptop and desktop world. But then
you have to deal with the politics of Apple being a hardware company
(job losses, angry stockholders, etc).
Things that make you go "hum".
- Dan.
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