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Not sure if anyone will see this, but found this article interesting while crawling the internet. Then read the comments and decided that I should comment. Just to clear some misinformation up here: 1. OSX 10.5 as it stands now, uses at least 2 dozen GNU applications within its framework, that I know of. 2. Linux is not an OS, its merely a Kernel that can be used in GNU, but not the only one. 3. Apple is not "far and away" the largest corporate supporter (giving code) to the Open Source community, that would more than likely be Big Blue (IBM) who has for many years longer than Apple been highly active in GNU, and even in the Linux kernel. In fact they have a long running dispute with Linus' vanilla Dev team over how Linux implements certain things, and thus don't use that kernel. 4. Hate to break the news, but SL is already working on Hackintoshes, Several SL dev copies have made their way to testing with success. I don't think Apple is planning anything against this community with the upcoming 10.6 5. Even "IF" Apple wanted to shutdown sites like insanelymac, and hackintosh.org., I'm pretty sure they would run into Free Speech Rights (One can discuss nearly anything online if its done for educational purposes). Assuming they are hosted in the US. But lets face it why would Apple want to shut them down. What the Apple Fanboy fails to realize is these communities give Apple an International group of sophisticated PC users with the ability to code UNX/LNX. Why is that important to Apple, well besides thousands of free hours of man power, and code sniffing, they effectivly provide "Free R&D;", giving the Apple Dev's a huge knowledge base to work from. EXAMPLES of this: A. GFX support for cards which are just coming to market or announced for the MAC. They have been long running in the hackintosh. (IE., Nvidia GT 265 / ATI 4870) B. The lastest Nvidia chipsets found in the Mini's. Amd/Nvidia CPUS/Chipsets have been working in the hackintosh for awhile now, seems very logical that once they saw how the AMD/Nvidia's were working in a hackintosh that they decided to try it out. In short these immoral, unethical, crimminals provide a great free R&D;base. Thinking that Apple doesn't surf those sites is foolish to say the least. The Personal Use Hackintosh benefits all MAC users, so please stop hating on us.