Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:
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I still don't get why pc users (linux and windows) are so excited about apple's future. Everyone seem to want OSX on their box.
The fact is, we don't need OSX at all. We have already most of the infrastructure to make a free alternative quite fast. I don't get why so many programmers still work hard on gnome/kde projects when they are always thinking about switching to OSX.
Did you guys forget gnustep? With a bit more work it could become almost 100% compatible with apple's cocoa. Both are based on openstep anyway. I think someone could just rework Windowmaker and theme the widgets and it would almost feel like OSX. But it could become even WAY better if alot of people were concerned about it. The community is able to make some kind of "open osx" trust me.
People tried for a long time to reproduce microsoft stuff for the linux platform, but why not reproduce (and improve!) mac products?
Why are the open source people so lovely with apple anyway?