[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

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At the local Unix User Group meeting a couple meetings back we were
told that Apple would likely never make a OS X port to Intel because
they support OS development by selling the hardware, and they figure
the hardware sales would suffer greatly. Any thoughts?


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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fogg, James" <JFogg at vicinity.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:24 AM
Subject: RE: [geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...


> ~ -----Original Message-----
> ~ From: Peter L. Wargo [mailto:pwargo at basenji.com]
> ~ 
> ~ http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020214.html
> ~ 
> ~ Interestingly enough, I would like to see it as well.  Don't 
> ~ ask me why, 
> ~ I'm not sure myself.
> ~ 
> ~ -Pete
> 
> Personaly, I'd pay cash for OS/X-i386. I have way more PC crap
> given to me than Mac (people love their Macs), and I think Crigley
> is right, both companies would benefit (though MS might not see it
> that way and pull their support for Office-X).
> 
> On a related note, I found the MS support for office-X surprising.
> Doesn't this mean that they are dangerously close to having an
> Office-for-Linux? That would have the potential to screw the MS
> Windows O/S platform nearly out of existance. Would it be possible
> to get Office-X running under Linux without the source code? How
> similar to X-windows is O/S-X's GUI?
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