Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

On 07 Nov 2011, at 02:39 , Chris Murphy wrote:

>> The advantages to Apple in making OS X into an open (or open-ish) product are many. Apple has already abandoned OS X as a profit center ($30 for unlimited licenses of Lion for personal use means they aren't interested in making money from it). Opening up OS X means that a lot of Apple employees working on OS X can shift focus to iOS. It will also mean a sharp increase in the number of computers running OS X and it will make Windows systems, especially for embedded systems like cash registers, ATMs, RedBox kiosks, etc, a lot less attractive.
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> Mac OS X has next to no chance to take over any of those systems, none of which run Windows. 

Err... you sure about that? I've seen vast numbers of all of the above displaying BSDs and other Marks of the Microsoft Beast. And I just did a quick Google on just one of 'em: Point of Sale software. The first five hits, which was a far as I bothered to go, were Windows-based systems. I'd say that a _lot_ of POS and other similar systems are Windows-based. I _know_ that the local branches of Chase, Wells Fargo, and SunTrust all use Windows for their ATMs, having seen the Mark of the Beast on 'em many a time.