OSx86 project offers $1 bounty for a Vista boot
By Evan Blass 
posted March 21st 2006 9:15PM
posted March 21st 2006 9:15PM
The ink is barely dry on narf/blanka's checks, and already
the OSx86 project has launched a new contest for getting Microsoft
Vista to dual-boot on an Intel Mac (although it seems copies of that particular OS may be rather scarce for awhile), but this time
the prize will be a bit smaller- thousands of dollars smaller, actually. In order to prevent a large reward from
"holding us back from sharing what we learn," the project coordinators have decided to forgo the donation pot
from the XP contest in favor of a
flat $1 bounty. "Plus, it's fun," they add sadistically. Clearly they were also having fun when codifying the
rules of the contest, as the very lax restrictions only require that entrants have a computer, be carbon-based life
forms, and prove a hatred of Nancy Sinatra for eligibility.[Thanks, Jon B.]
They are really smart to do this because alot of people are jelous of narf and will jump on this just because of that. They don't need money to motivate them
How nice, Jobs is donating his whole salary to a worthwhile cause.
Tobias: Well... that, minus his tens of millions of stock options and private jet.
well also the onmac.net guys are possibly going to offer a $1000 reward for XP drivers for the ati video card on the macbook and imac
I don't know why the OSX86 guys are so anti rewarding hard work. This is the second article railing against a reward for the person who gets xp/vista booting on intel macs. All I know is nobody was able to install windows on a mac, then somebody offers a $14k reward if someone comes up with a solution and now I can boot XP on my macbook. Money is a great motivator and as far as "openness of information" is concerned, Narf and Blanka's solution is open source.
I totally agree, #5. The best way to get something done is to offer a reward (unless you happen to be looking for Osama bin Laden)
I say offer money, we'll see a dual booting macbook with Vista beta in less than a month.
Kajoob,
I don't think it was quite like that. Didn't the $14 come from donations? So there were a number of people interested in it, not just one guy with money.
I actually agree with the OSx86 guys - I genuinely believe XP would have been booting even faster if the reward was small. There was absoultely no info being posted on forums so it was up to individuals only to do the figuring out and coding - everyone had to re-invent the wheel, they couldn't do it together. Surely people were tought the true meaning of TEAM in school - Together Everyone Achieves More!!
Booting XP I get but why would anyone want to boot Vista on their Mac? XP is bad enough but how buggy is Vista going to be?
Proof of concept I guess but who would actually want to use Vista over XP on a Mac? Why not just run the reasonably stable XP for what you have to get done in Windows then get the hell out as quickly as possible.
I agree with Mephistophelian.
Its ridiculous how they demand harwork, freelance expertise, self-financed research and no reward. Lanky, as these companies as they grow - become richer and ten-fold meaner and did I forget to say, more stingy? Jobs, pass the cheese cracker! You've had enough.
Who cares about booting Windows on a Mac? Lets see some advances in getting OSX running on PC's. Why would I spend the extra money for the mac (other than eye candy) when I can build a more robust/upgradeable machine for cheaper.
you can boot osx on a pc...
Oh, Great. Now I need a Mac with more RAM and a bigger hard drive.
i think the easiest way to do this is to have 2 hard drives set both to master and then install each os on each individual hard drive. then just put the cable to the hard drive of which the operating system you want is on and there you go :)
its what i did for my pc to run osx on it and windows, except i just enable/disable drives in the bios and macs cant do this (per lacking bios).
can i have a dollar now :P
i think the best thing is not to put any MS operating system on their.
Here is an interesting perspective on Windows Vista and how it will affect online video, music, and photos.
Why Windows Vista Delay is Bad News for Apple and Google
http://mrwavetheory.blogspot.com/2006/03/why-windows-vista-delay-is-bad-news.html
darn, I could have won this one if I wasn't so fond of "these boots are made for walkin'."
You're all missing the point. This compo encourages using pirated beta versions of Vista.
What I think would be a good method to get projects like this done quickly, and get a lot of people involved, and have the community sharing info as well would be to have a large pot of money like before, except part of the winners proof would be the inclusion of basically a lab report of how they did it AND inclusion of references (what community info did they use, and who provided it). The winner would get the largest portion of the pot, and those included in the references that developed vital steps in the project would also get shares of the prize. I would predict that a lot of people would be very eager to share their info because there would be a much better chance at least of getting some of the money for their work rather than being the lucky person to finish the project first.
Hey! The real issue here should be: What the heck is wrong with Nancy Sinatra!
Every time Engadget posts about the Win on Mac projects, there's always at least 2 types of comment posters:
1.) "Why would you want to do that? It's a crappy OS on superior hardware."
and
2.) "I think the more important point is to get OSX running on a PC."
I'm actually getting really tired of seeing both of these posts on here, and I'm sure others are too.
To the No. 1 crowd: look, getting windows on a mac obviously isn't going to be your bag...and I don't care what your opinion is and I'm tired of hearing you whine. There is a significant community out there that wants this, is working hard to get it working well, and is motivated by either the reward or just knowing that it can be done. If you don't like seeing XP on a Mac, stop looking.
To the No. 2 crowd: as it's been said, this has been done. If you really cared about getting OSX on your PC you'd realize that both the PearPC project and the OSX86 guys have made this possible already. Similarly to my advice to the No. 1 crowd, I don't care what your opinion is and everyone is tired of hearing you. Posting on an XP-on-a-Mac thread just proves how much of a smacktard you are for incessantly posting about the reverse.
I can understand why people want to try and get windows on their mac, but once you accomplish that, what are you going to do with windows on your mac, are you going to unistall it or actually do stuff with it?
DAMNIT - where is the effort in something USEFUL for the adult crowd? Like VMWare for Mac OS X?
Booting into XP is really a moot point - what i want to do is run Windows on Mac OS X, not on my Mac. Because i have a few apps that i have to run and really need to run at full PC speeds (with the obligatory 10-20% overhead penalty)...
fscking gamers constantly making the world complicated when simple is all we need... VMWare for Mac OS X, damnit!
i guess # 23 didn't read post #22.. shut up already!!
and why do they have a problem with Nancy Sinatra?
There is no point in booting Windows on a Mac. It'sa totaly stupid project. There is no use for Windows on a Mac. If you want to use Windows it's much easier to install it on a PC. And if you buy a Mac you didn't do it because you wanted to install Windows on it.