Linked by Anton Klotz on Fri 25th Jan 2008 13:14 UTC
This article is about new aspects of the never-ending story of how Apple is protecting MacOS X for running on different hardware than Apple's. The keyword is virtualization, which allows running unmodified version of Mac OS X as virtualized instance.
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It is not. Why? Because Linux/BSD GUI is still far away from Aqua's esthetic. Ordinary people will look at the GUI first.
Sooner or later, they will be forced by their users, clients and business partners into what they are against now. Apple, Microsoft and other companies will port their software to FOSS platforms.
They don't, but the reverse is applied. Take an example KHTML, it's originally developed by KDE team, but now they follow Apple's policy.
I do not care if it happens in one, two or ten years. I am fine with what FOSS offers today already.
BTW, Apple sells closed (and cool) appliances. Not computers or software. Apple does not empower users in the long run.
Apple is intended for mid-range to upper class persons, not for students/poor geeks. Apple offers high quality hardware at competitive price to PC with the same spec.