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"Now I know they use specific hardware vendors for their
machines and have control of that hardware, but whats to stop a
generic hardware manufacturer from creating some OS X drivers
and selling the product? People could buy those, make their own
x86 machine, then load OS X. You wouldn't have official support
from Apple, but if everything worked you wouldn't need it.
Would this be a plausible idea?"

Disclaimer: We're yet to see everything Apple has in mind to
restrict Mac OS X on Intel to its own hardware.

Given the entire low level parts of the OS are open sourced (via
the Darwin project) what you describe might be possible. It
would be a problem if a close source portion, say Quartz,
implements the restrictions (likely me thinks).

Even so I wouldn't underestimate the resource required to write
some of the drivers which would be expected (e.g. core image
driver for your chosen GPU).

Higher level drivers (e.g. IOKit) should work without problems if
you get the lower level functionality correct.

aside: well done Apple for another outstanding qtr. Love your
work!
Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 10/11/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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