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Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jigga-whaa dept.

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."

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  1. Dvorak Avocates... by rbochan · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ... nothing but increasing his ad-hits by continually pumping out provacative, but senseless drivel, with a side of flame-festy goodness.

    Nothing to see here... move along.

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  2. Retarded frikkin' Slashdot editors by FFFish · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is this batshitinsane Dvorak asshat being given any media space here on Slashdot? I mean, sure, Dvorak is a famous retard... but what on earth makes Taco and crew think anyone gives a good goddamn about what some retard has to say about Apple, regardless his fame?

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  3. Dvorak is right by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He just doesn't know what he is talking about.

    Dvorak is like Nostrodmos (sp?). He sees a trend, and totally misinterprets it.

    I have every belief in the world that Apple will release a Cocoa for Win32. You'll be able to build OS X applications that will run just fine on Win32 using the Cocoa framework.

    There'll be some minor niggles that are resolved through an extra compile-time check on Xcode, after which you get an even MORE universal binary. Then, Xcode becomes a painless cross-platform development library, and Apple does its damndest to encourage cross-platform developers like Adobe to move to using only Xcode.

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  4. Opensourced already... by codemonk82 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think the comments below are pointless especially since OS X is open sourced already. http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ It is only the gui that is not open sourced (aqua) or wotever you call it. To all of you that have posted about this do some reading about apple before shooting your mouth about it never happening.