Last weekend, a small, defiant company called Psystar
unleashed an opening salvo as it announced (and started selling) the Open
Computer - its own desktop running Mac OS X Leopard.
To license or not to license... this is the question.
Steve has most certainly toyed with the idea, but its easier said than done. First of all, its not clear that Apple would make more money licensing OS X on third party hardware than by making the whole widget. Second, OS X would likely become just as crappy as Windows if it had to run on a wide range of hardware. Bundling the hardware and software together is not just a philosophical issue, its also practical in the sense that it reduces the probability of error.
My two cents.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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To license or not to license... this is the question.
Steve has most certainly toyed with the idea, but its easier said than done. First of all, its not clear that Apple would make more money licensing OS X on third party hardware than by making the whole widget. Second, OS X would likely become just as crappy as Windows if it had to run on a wide range of hardware. Bundling the hardware and software together is not just a philosophical issue, its also practical in the sense that it reduces the probability of error.My two cents.