Darwin OS, based on Mac OSX is open source (of sorts) as well. While it's not clear that this OS will take off as much as Linux has/is on PPC, it probably will drive some sales.
Darwin OS probably has a reasonable chance at becoming a large player in the "free" UNIX on PPC space. And I think I've read that they plan to sync with FreeBSD 3.x at some stage. Of some interest is that the core Darwin OS shares a great deal with development of Mac OS X Server. That means that if anyone writes for Mac OS X Server/Client, the benfits will fall through to Darwin (as I understand it), and of course vice-versa. Stuff like the driver model, kernel etc, are compatible. In fact you can now recompile a Darwin kernel and replace it into MacOS X Server. So..., while I'm not sure, a hardware manufacturer sort of has a better deal now with Darwin - namely that the source code for the OS is now available. A. > Question is indeed whether IBM would have supplied Apple with CPUs. Note > that IBM did take revenge on Apple by canceling the contract for AIX > on high-end Apple servers. But this last fact didn't have much press > coverage. > -- dn: uid=aris,ou=People,dc=PADL,dc=COM o: PADL Software Pty Ltd mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] labeledURI: http://www.padl.com/
