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Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux
Deep Fried Geekboy writes "John C. Dvorak is pretty quick off the blocks with a response to the news that Apple intend to switch to Intel processors. Thankfully, he doesn't gloat about having called this one correctly, but says that the move is likely to hurt Linux, as OSS developers increasingly target the Mac. Since it now turns out that Dvorak was apparently not smoking crack when he predicted the Apple move, could he be right on this one too?"
As soon as the Linux community gets its collective head out of its ass and realizes that Apple IS the standard of nix's be it Linux or Unix.
Linux has had a few years to really get things going and for a while there IBM and Novell had a real head of steam but NO ONE - ang I mean NO ONE in the Linux community seems to be able to continue the momentum.
Listen if Jobs can come up with some sort of super-frickin'-duper translation layer from PowerPC to INTEL why the hell can't Linux to the same with Windows to Linux translation. But translation only as a means for transition. Not as a yeah I run Linux and I'm cool but I have all my comfy Widows apps running with CoderWeavers or VMware... that NOT a reasonable long term strategy... of course who in the Linux community has any sort of long term strategy? Anyone... well... yeah I thought so.
You see the Linux community is still fighting over Gnome vs whatever and the latest kernel mutations instead of practical implementations that would actually cause a regular Windows user to switch. Get it!?
Do you think for a second the public at large really knows about the power of UNIX that Jobs spouts off about at every opportunity. Of course not.
But they do recall the inx thingy, ah whats it called, you know the penquin thingy... oh yeah Linus the Peanuts OS!
If Apple every unleashes OS X to the masses for the X86 Linux will feel the pain as much as Windows will... if not more.
And you know I'm right!
Why is it that about 90% of all /. agree that Dvorak is a dolt but we still see his fucking articles (read; opinion) posted as "news"? Man, this is getting fucking old.
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"We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac."
When will Apple see that trying to be a "Computer Manufacturer" is such a bad business model compared with OS Developer. If their OS ran on something besides $2,000 machines that do the equivalent of $500 common PCs I think they could really see more people adopt their OS as their first choice on the desktop. Oh well.
Who's Dvorak?
Will Mac's have the "Intel inside" sticker now? Those are...great.
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