[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Bowie J. Poag]

In all reality, the OSx86 community is probably beneficial for Apple. It 
brings eyeballs to the platform that otherwise wouldn't be attracted, 
and those eyeballs are connected to wallets. It's money they would have 
never otherwise made off of a statistically insignificant number of people.

You're kidding yourself if you think Apple isn't aware of it, and the 
fact they've done nothing for years now is implicit tolerance of the idea.

Besides.... the instant Steve Jobs starts bitching about "stealing from 
a company".....  Pot, kettle.

Cheers,
Bowie




> You're right Jim, they could, I think the real question is this: What
> are their intentions as to why they have not? Are they afraid of some
> sort of legal action for "monopolizing" on the fact that they had then
> just married the hardware to the software more than they already are?
> Are they toying with the idea of generalizing OS (which is what I hope
> they have intentions of doing) be it through a contract of some sort
> with HP/Dell/etc. I think the fact that nothing has been done is more
> interesting than the fact that it can be done.  
>
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