Re: Why Apple should let HP build its workstations

[JeremyGarchow]"As far as porting avid and adobe to Linux, not sure if that makes sense. If professional editors with desktops are a niche, professional editors on Linux are a microorganized version of that niche. Is it worth it for Avid or Adobe?"

Port it and they will come. My point is that lots of pros are using a form of Linux anyway with OSX. If Apple remain fixed in their narrow hardware window, then open the game up. There is already a lot of open source software that runs under OSX so there should be little effort in porting the OSX versions to Linux.

Ron's point is it could be good for us and Apple to open the hardware game up but my point is if Apple want to remain exclusive, an alternative to those that don't want to play in WIN land would be a free and easy migrate.

I embraced Linux for my office machine because it acts as a gateway between the web, Mac and Win computers in the facility. I can plug almost any drive format in and there is a ton of great freeware to do all sorts of AV tasks. The latest version of Ubuntu is probably easier to install and navigate than either OSX or WIN7. Robust! Huge dev team, millions of software developers.