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Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X
xzvf writes "Dvorak claims OS X and Apple in trouble. He suggests open sourcing OS X for an epic battle with Linux. In many ways, this is just insane rambling, but it's certainly entertaining on some levels." From the article: "That would make the battle between OS X and Linux the most interesting one on the computer scene. With all attention turned in that direction, there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes. Let's start at the beginning. There's been a lot of fuss over Apple's rollout of the unsupported Boot Camp product, which lets Mac users run Microsoft Windows easily on an Intel-based Macintosh. I got into various levels of trouble when I suggested that Apple was going to gravitate towards Windows since it would be easy to do and there was some evidence that the company might want to do it."
OS X will turn on it's back and die before Apple releases Cocoa as open source. Nobody would use OS X anymore since the so called "Unix" in it sucks terribly. I don't see it speeding up either, Apple tried for 10 years to make their own OS before copying FreeBSD and they failed misserably. When copying FreeBSD they also failed as the resulting product isn't very good but at least it runs good enough to run photoshop.
All the Apple fanboys that plague this site would be up in arms if Apple did this as it would take away from their little private club. The fanboys are already angry at Mr. Jobs because he switched from running their eyecandy gluttoned OS on ultraexclusive PowerPC to icky Intel hardware. Personally, I think Apple fanboys shouldn't worry about keeping their fruity little club private. The rest of us just don't "swing that way".
the parent is a KNOWN TROOL pls mod down kthx!!
No. See here.