Take a Mac User to Lunch

A Slashdot reader writes "LinuxWorld is running a story explaining how Mac OS X may help break down the walls for non-Windows operating systems, including Linux."

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open source ?

[Anonymous Coward]

what part of osx is open source ?
if it's open source then why isn't it free ?

how is it different from linux open source code ?

it seems apple is just confusing the terminoligies here to facilitate the marketing and the push to win over OSX devotees. Trying to take advantage of the impetus that linux and the OSS movement has generated on its own. Jobs seems very wily in bringing apple to a stage where he is trying to win (or trick) the linux crowd over to the apple "side". i know a devoted apple follower :) and he's always spending money or promoting apple and it's products some how. This whole thing is weird...

anyway can someone elucidate my initial observations ? in simple terms.

Ate An Apple User For Lunch

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An OSX user I know was impressed by Apples performance claims with BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) and challenged my dual AMD to a drag race. We went through some wild contortions to find a benchmarking condition in which his similarly priced Apple box could win a race (mucking about with word sizes), but the AMD box won by a significant margin.
OSX will likely appeal to bioinformatics tool users as well as at least some tool makers.