Here's some prior art. On this project (http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/CorInfSys/huynh/cmi.html) we ran over either a standard filesystem, or over ClearCase. CC is a really amazing versioning filesystem, allowing us to produce web content, with versioning, review/release, views, etc., with trivial ease.
Apple earns its margins by innovative R&D that creates a more valuable product than the generic PC. Desktop PC's are commodities with no margin, so investing in R&D to make Mac's better (and they have to be better to sell at all) means that you have to pay more for desktop Mac's than desktop PC's. On the other hand, laptops all require R&D, so they all sell for a higher markup over raw costs, which means that Apple can invest in R&D and still sell a product that is not only better but cheaper than the PC manufacturers.
3. OpenFirmware-Yes, it's OpenFirmware, but doesn't it have propritary extensions for bootstrapping the OS? I can't install OS X on like an IBM PowerPC Machine. The Mac is NOT totally open-if it was I could do this.
Actually, back in the days when CHRP/PReP were cool, there was at least one CHRP PowerPC workstation from IBM, and one version of MacOS (7?) that would install and boot on that workstation. So at least in that instance, MacOS wasn't tied to any Mac hardware...
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Here's some prior art. On this project (http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings /CorInfSys/huynh/cmi.html) we ran over either a standard filesystem, or over ClearCase. CC is a really amazing versioning filesystem, allowing us to produce web content, with versioning, review/release, views, etc., with trivial ease.
Apple earns its margins by innovative R&D that creates a more valuable product than the generic PC. Desktop PC's are commodities with no margin, so investing in R&D to make Mac's better (and they have to be better to sell at all) means that you have to pay more for desktop Mac's than desktop PC's. On the other hand, laptops all require R&D, so they all sell for a higher markup over raw costs, which means that Apple can invest in R&D and still sell a product that is not only better but cheaper than the PC manufacturers.
3. OpenFirmware-Yes, it's OpenFirmware, but doesn't it have propritary extensions for bootstrapping the OS? I can't install OS X on like an IBM PowerPC Machine. The Mac is NOT totally open-if it was I could do this.
Actually, back in the days when CHRP/PReP were cool, there was at least one CHRP PowerPC workstation from IBM, and one version of MacOS (7?) that would install and boot on that workstation. So at least in that instance, MacOS wasn't tied to any Mac hardware...
Sure you'd want someone with experience, but you'd also want someone with a experience being successful.