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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!dcn67.dcn.davis.ca.us!user From: dtwitkowski@ucdavis.edu (David T. Witkowski) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Apple and Linux/NetBSD Ports Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:24:12 -0800 Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <dtwitkowski-1912952224120001@dcn67.dcn.davis.ca.us> References: <4auoo6$gov@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcn67.dcn.davis.ca.us X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31561 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1676 Matt Slot <fprefect@umich.edu> wrote: >Second, I want to build up a document that describes how helping Linux >helps Apple. Specifically, I am looking for information of the form >"If the Macintosh supported Linux...": > * 10,000 more people would by a Mac > * Average active lifetime of a Mac would double > (the SE/30 as a server in the corner) > * 3% more Macs would be used as Internet Servers > * Apple would make an additional $1,000,000 If the Macintosh supported Linux: * Apple might shake their image as a bunch of xenophobic flakes * Apple could call it PowerOpen 2.0 and save face * I might actually stop saving money to buy a Be Inc. CHRP system and spend it on my Centris instead But then again, you never know... :) ...dtw -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | On the average, a person has one testicle. | | 1 + 1 = 3, for sufficiently large values of 1. | | http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~witkowsk/ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------