[PLUG] Re: PowerPC rambling

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

> You'd have a hard time running Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware,

        True!


> but only because they've purposely coded such limitations into the OS.

        No, it's because they (have yet?) to want to try!   Since Apple 
makes money on hardware, why would they want to lose that revenue if their 
software (which sells their hardware) ran elsewhere?

        However, I suspect that Mac OS X COULD be compiled and run on any 
platform with Darwin as the kernel and gcc available for compilation.


> You can run Darwin on anything for which it's got hardware support.

        Right - which includes Intel boxes!  If you just want the kernel 
part of Mac OS X, you can install that on a Intel box along with standard 
XWindows, etc. and go merrily computing along.


> I made, and intend to make, no defense of Mac OS X as either Free or
> open source software.

        Good, because it is not!


> Darwin, I'll defend as being open and
> modifiable. I really don't care about the political issues, so I
> don't know what Apple's stance on redistribution is this week.

        Darwin is fully open source, using all the standard meanings of 
that word.  It's not GPL, but the license is still quite reasonable.


Leonard


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