[plug] vmware and such

[craig at postnewspapers.com.au]

> yeah, i knew you could get darwin, but I have linux and I dunno if there 
> would be any advantage of using darwin for x86. do you think if we asked 
> apple very nicely they would make Aqua available under the GPL?
*choke*
Not going to happen. Apple is _insanely_ protective of its GUI, and even
Darwin/PPC isn't the _same_ Darwin that OSX is built on, exactly.
Anyway, Aqua for x86 wouldn't be all that useful because most MacOSX
apps use the old MacOS 9 compatability libraries that would be nigh
impossible to port to x86 and would require CPU instruction translation
etc too.
Apple is very unlikely to ever release MacOS X for Intel either. 
	1) MS would kill them (withdraw office, etc etc) if they
	competed directly
	2) Apple makes its money on its painfully overpriced hardware
	sales, using the OS to drive the sales of that hardware. MacOS X
	for x86 would undermine their business.

I'd like to play with it too, even minus Carbon (?) libs. But I don't
see it happening.

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