Quoting Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 6/28/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And I surely never thought that, but the potential new developers that
will have
mac on their pc's and could work in the OOo port to Cocoa and other Mac
toolkits.
One clarification - "Mactel* doesn't mean that Mac will run on *any*
Intel system - according to Apple, You will still have to buy a Mac to
run OS X. The wording of your sentence here makes it seem like
software developers will just buy a copy of Tiger and slap it on their
current system. That's not what's going to happen, at least not
according to Apple.
Yes but according to the real world there is a OSX beta for any system already
in the Warez sites.
I'm sure someone will hack it (such a project already exists, PearPC)
to run on non-Mac intels, but that's not what Apple is wanting to
happen. All that the Mactel move means is that Apple computers - IE
Macs - will have a different processor. These computers will be able
to run Windows (and, presumably, any i386 type Linux) but Mac OS X
won't work without a Mac-only ROM that will be built into all the
Macs.
Yes the issue is on the firmware of this processors that could be cracked in a
space of 1 week to 1 month.
I'm not sure the move to Intel will change much of anything, except it
will let more Mac users try Windows and Linux, and it may drop the
price of Macs, making more Windows and Linux users want to get a Mac.
But it's not going to allow everyone will a pc to run Mac. Again,
that is straight from Apple.
Is this 'change much of anything' I think just by doing the changes you
mentioned is ALREADY a big change on the consumer landscape. Then again we
already know what time is it, and we shouldn't guide us by what PR
stuff say or
don't say.
Quote:
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac
OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running
Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.
Source:
http://news.com.com/Apple+throws+the+switch%2C+aligns+with+Intel+-+page+2/2100-7341_3-5733756-2.html?tag=st.next
non-wrappy link:
http://tinyurl.com/8vwvz
The quote is the last paragraph in the story.
Anyway, I could be way off base in this correction, but I just wanted
to clarify the situation.
HTH!
-Chad
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Alexandro Colorado
Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish
http://es.openoffice.org/
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