> Um, waitasec. Didn't you recently post an argument > about how giving software away is a bad thing? > > Why yes, you did: > http://www.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/2005-January/013824.html > > And not only that, you posted that hardware > manufacturers should not give away their intellectual > property, as that is a bad business model: > http://www.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/2005-January/013793.html > > Aren't you implying that Apple should do what IBM did > (open up their hardware specs to gain more market > share), in contradiction to what you expressed > earlier?
I see what you are trying to do here. I cannot compare licensing the firmware of a general purpose computer and its architecture to opening the source code of drivers to a 3D accelerator. Let's be honest, all Apple would be "opening" is the ability to install their OS onto any PPC-based whitebox; it is just licensing their equivalent of the BIOS, Open Firmware, to motherboard manufacturers. You and I don't have or need the source code to the BIOS! > It's okay; you stand in good company: > "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict > myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." > Walt Whitman If you understand the issues, there is no contradiction. > > I will > > NOT pay their prices for something I should able to > > build in a > > whitebox case. I'd say the Mac Mini is a step in > > the right direction > > but it's a little underpowered for my geeky taste. > > Build your own G4 > http://www.macopz.com/buildamac/ > > Hopefully, G5 parts will eventually be available > (guess after the G6 appears). I can now purchase brand new G4 motherboards and processors from Genesi, manufacturers of the PegaSOS (http://www.ultraspec.us/p2g4.htm). These are what I am wanting. I however cannot install Mac OS X on it. I do not wish to buy used motherboards and CPU's from cannibalized Mac's and try to hack them together inside a standard ATX Case.
