AntiTrust

RJG robg54@mediaone.net
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:09:16 -0500


No way, people are not going to switch to apple hardware because the
OS is so good.  Do you really expect corporate America to replace their
current hardware for apple because of X os?  The home user won't either,
because they feel safe using what everyone else is......



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Szumlinski" <szumlins@msu.edu>
To: "Sean" <picasso@madflower.com>
Cc: "Lansing Linux User Group" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: AntiTrust


> Economically, it would be suicide to port OS X to x86. Darwin has been
> ported already, but it is basically just a BSD shell. Quartz/OpenGL are
what
> are gonna make OS X so huge. After all, Apple IS a hardware company, and
if
> OS X is as good as I've seen, it will take the professional world by
storm,
> and we all know consumers follow right behind.
>
> -Mike
>
> On 1/14/01 4:12 PM, "Sean" <picasso@madflower.com> wrote:
>
> > I kind of wonder if they will release the x86 port or not.
>
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