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Old 09-02-2002, 10:03 AM   #3
MaggieL
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Originally posted by Undertoad

Why: it's an on MS tactic. Announce that you have vaporware and force your competitors to compete with it before it's actually a product.
Which of Apple's competitors would care about an X86-ported OS X? Microsoft?

I'm guessing the code isn't vaporware at all; it's probably not that big a deal to maintain the port. What strikes me as vaporous is how it could be productized without creating chaos in their buisiness model, developer community and channels.
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