Slashdot Mirror
Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops
bonch writes "Steve Jobs offered Mac OS X free of charge to the $100 laptop effort by the One Laptop Per Child project. However, his offer was declined because the project was looking for a 100% open source solution. The laptops will now be running on Red Hat Linux on AMD chips."
Surely, Jobs knew that the makers of the $100 laptop were looking for an open-source software solution. So, he made an offer knowing fully well that it would not be accepted...but he is getting tons of publicity and goodwill because of this.
What I wonder is, would he have offered free tech support with the free OS X for the laptops? Obivously I haven't RTFA.
So offering OS X is like cigarettes?
So I guess by your logic that makes Linux a cigarette do-it-yourself kit complete with rolling papers, tobacco, and instructions.
And so now what's the difference? Kids hooked on one OS vs. another.
I like you slashbots. You kids are so cute when you try to act smart, but I just utterly demolished and destroyed you with adult logic.
Darwin has it's source code available and it runs on i386 and PPC, the most common processors in the market. The GUI was not something they would be likely to hack at all. Besides they can run XWindows on it too. Yes it's zealotry.
What?!
In what ways can you tinker with Linux that you cannot tinker with OS X? In fact, OS X gives you far more to tinker with because not only do you have the keys to the kernal and the BSD layer and X11, but also to everything that Apple provides. That answer makes no sense whatsoever.
I thought it was about the applications, of which most of them would not run very well on a $100 laptop, if at all. OSX barely runs at all on a G3 these days (you can coerce it, but it's awful). can't imagine how painful a $100 laptop would be.
After point #1, I didn't realize that I stopped listing "standard Slashbot assumptions." I just started listing truth points. Oops!
"Sufferin' succotash."
Fuck you. In all of your examples the early days of those technologies were things that regular people as you called it "tinkered" with. I'd rather have tools that people can change then your dumbing down of the modern day Ford that you can't "tinker with". Linux will always be this and that is why it is so important for the people, even the "unwashed, non-technical masses" as you say, because they are the ones that need the flexibility, and the freedom the most!!!