MacOS X on Intel (Score 1)

It seems to me what Apple is doing is putting out some feelers to see if porting X to Intel is worth the effort. There is probably little chance that X will be open sourced but It could be. If they price their boxed precompiled retail version cheap and make the source the only part you can download then they could do it. Probably under a fairly restrictive license, maybe not even technically "open" source. Apple has to do anything it can to get market share. Be's stunt with FreeBe might be a good idea but probabaly not for Apple. They already lose money on the OS (making it up on the hardware), but if they can get more people to pay them a little for the OS and just the OS they could move away from the custom ROMS and to a more open architecture (the ROM is the only part of current Mac's hardware that is really proprietary and the only real impedament to a fully open architecture). It will be interesting to watch and see if IBM's announced CHRP PPC open motherboard spec ever ships as this might be the way to give the geeks like us an open platform to get Darwin running on and try to paste a retail X/Auqa on top.