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Clone Wars: Open Tech Brands Products "Leopard Compatible"

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You probably weren't expecting this, especially since Apple is now suing Psystar, but some folks are just too brave (or stupid?) to care. Open Tech Inc.'s "Open Tech" and "Open Tech XT" desktops have been (un)officially branded as Leopard compatible, according to these screenshots posted by the Engadget. I promptly went to Open Tech's website to see for myself, but it seems they had already taken down the OS logos. In fact, I caught a glimpse of them on their "Open Tech XT" page, but it dissappeared after subsequent refreshes. Fortunately, I was able to cap a pic of their webstore, which says:

"*OS X Leopard Will not be pre-installed or included. Instead you can install it yourself using an easy
Do-it-yourself kit
. All other Operating System will be preinstalled* VISTA & XP ARE 64-BIT",

along with a dropdown menu that allows you to select OS X Leopard as your choice of OS.

 

Open Tech Inc. is blatantly advertising their computers as Leopard capable and offering to supply users with miscellaneous materials for the purpose of installing Leopard on their products. The latter was specifically part of the legal complaint that Apple had filed against Psystar.

 

But honestly Open Tech, why can't your product and company names be a tad more creative than our now infamous friend, the Open Computer?

 

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lstep

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Seriously.. we just need some more company doing the same thing before apple decide to do something to the OS itself to stop all these... god bless us OSX86ers

 

Hmm...it's not clear what Apple could do unless they want to get away from the Open Source Darwin idea. Darwin runs on x86 in an open way. The GUI is what we often think of as OSX, but it's running on top of Darwin. You can just use X-Windows with Darwin and run a lot of neat stuff.

 

The era of really proprietary stuff is over. I suspect both Apple and Microsoft know this. They are both trying to deal with it in their own ways. They are also both fortunate that the Linux world has been so chaotic and had such a confusing approach to installation of software and choice of gui. One of these days there will be a Linux front-end that unifies gnome and kde and then things will get interesting.

 

I far prefer OSX to either Windows or Linux, but I just see Apple moving towards phones, jukebox music players, etc...and not really coming out with anything new on the hardware/sw front. I think they know the desktop era is going to go open where there is less of a profit. It's kind of like waiting for people to realize they don't have to spend $100/seat to get Office when Open Office is already overkill for most users.

 

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