Dvorak says Mac OS X should be freed
OfflineThis is the story he wrote: Apple Needs to Make OS X Open-Source
A cloud is rising over Mac OS X and its future unless Apple makes its boldest move ever: turning OS X into an open-source project. That would make the battle between OS X and Linux the most interesting one on the computer scene. With all attention turned in that direction, there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes.
Judging from Dvoraks journalist history we probably don't need to take this with much excitement. Dvorak has been saying and writing alot and not always was it factual information, good arguments or predictions...
But for the sake of discussion, let's digest this one. He might have a point here, at least about Apple's boot camp being a sort of "test marketing" for it to determine where to go next.
One thing that is interesting is that by offering this boot camp Apple has shown that it doesn't care about their operating system as much as it does about the sales of their actual computers, except if they really think offering the possibility of running windows on a Mac would attract more people to their OS (which is a possibility though). So, if this is true then maybe Apple wouldn't have much of a problem releasing OS X as Free Software either, especially after considering the benefits this could get them.
I would actually love to see OS X and GNU/Linux compete head to head on the same level (being Free Software). OS X is afterall a UNIX based system and practically all of the software we've come to like on GNU/Linux would work on it too. Also, since it is Free Software we wouldn't need to worry about any DRM that could be built into it because we can remove it ourselves.
Being a Free Software advocate, I'm all for freeing all operating systems and software in existance. I would welcome the same with windows as well (though I wouldn't use it).
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Don't rule out the other possibility: a mac GUI on top of windows. It wouldn't surprise me, and boot camp is a sensible first step in that direction of migration too.
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Does Apple really want to submit to the Microsoft rule like that? Damn, if yes then I think they've officially lost their minds.
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Why not? It will make macs more attractive for everyone except us free software supporters... and for us it makes no difference: don't buy macOS, or don't buy windows! It should increase the number of macs sold, because all windows-only apps that people might depend on will run on mac too. Also, it will end all conflicts between apple and ms... And the mac zealots? They will swallow it, after all they've accepted the switch to the hated intel processor too.
With their putting treacherous computing chips in macs, apple certainly isn't moving in the software freedom direction.
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Well something like that may not influence us much directly, but it could help MS keep its desktop OS monopoly which is one of our biggest problems and brakes to the surge of GNU/Linux on the desktop.
I also, as a former Mac user, just can't imagine them submitting to windows. I believe OS X is a great operating system except in a most important way that it isn't Free Software. To think Apple would just abandon it in favor of windows swiss cheese is just freaky...
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They'd probably do something not really free like use Sun's "open source DRM."
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