<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Well, we can let that original poster speak for himself, but if he's making reference to hackers and the "hacker community" then he could hardly have been referring to an apple-sponsored OS X for generic PCs</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 12, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Geneva">An Apple sponsored version of OS X on a Generic PC is what is faerie dust.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Geneva; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Geneva">If Apple put out a copy for generic PC's, it would surely kill itself. That is what<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Geneva">I was meaning.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Geneva; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Geneva">And I think that is what the original poster was asking.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>