Dvorak: Apple needs to open source OS X

John C. Dvorak, who in his own words "got into various levels of trouble when [he] suggested that Apple was going to gravitate towards Windows," now says that Apple's recent release of the unsupported Boot Camp for running Windows on Intel Macs is "pure test marketing" to see how many Mac owners want to run Windows, how well it works, and how much protest there is. Based on the Boot Camp results so far, Dvorak speculates that Apple's next move will be the other side of the coin: Testing Mac OS X on conventional PCs. In such a scenario, Microsoft might begin to see Apple as a threat and, says Dvorak, the only solution would be to turn Mac OS X into an open source project, making "OS X versus Linux become the most interesting battle within the computer scene. With all the attention turned in that direction," he says, "there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes." At least, that's what I think he said. Dvorak seems to make a few leaps of logic that don't quite add up. Head over to PC World Magazine to try to make sense of it yourself.

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