Missing the Point (Score 1)

There seems to be this pervasive notion that if something is not free or the "cheapest" then it is not good. I for one gladly pay a premium for a good cut of meat, an excellent education, good iNet service, and I do not drive a free car etc. etc. The value in buying into the OSX concept and then porting sw to the far from free Apple hardware, OS is the 1) Quality of the Product(s) and 2) the impecable integration of the software and hardware.

It would seem to me that (in particular) the Linux crowd would love to leverage the work Apple is doing with wireless, 1 gig ethernet, multiprocessor machines (as a commodity), firewire, Quartz, etc etc. and thus make their sw really interesting and fun to use. Quite honestly, xterm, games etc. over wireless/Airport would be way cool - firewire devices (stereo, video etc). Apple has been doing this for almost a year.

For any smart developer, the idea is not to out program Apple but to take what Apple delivers and make it truly great/cool/fun etc.