Re:This is not bullshit.this is a good thing (Score 1)

>>Keep in mind. Mac OS X is a unix OS, with lots of unixy underpinnings. Amen! bout time I wondered what took them so, long surpised they didn't go multi platform right at the introduction of OS X. Using Free BSD as the underpinnings made me wonder why not two platforms (or more) >>You loose *some* compatability with existing Mac apps. Maybe some of the Relic (legacy apps) with a good emulator maybe not. >>More likely than not, all Linux apps will be recompilable for Mac. No sweat. I have seen the more recent Mac convertees using the Open Source derived apps right away. I guess some might have spotted that oportunity especially the Mac newbs, the old users maybe not This means OpenOffice.org 2.0 will work *now*. This means no more second-class Mac versions of popular OS apps. >>Virtual PC will run *much* faster. No more cpu emulation is needed. >>Vmware will run on a mac. Oh yeah This is a very good thing I suppose those that are shocked never heard of OpenDarwin much less tried it out (oops not if they didn't have an Intel box)