Dear Steve, Please release OX for all x86 based machines

That is the basic thrust of this open letter to His Steveness. Mike Willis posits that hackers have made OS X run on non-Apple hardware and there is nothing that Apple can do about it, so why not just play ball and release OS X for any old x86 machine?

Mike thinks that Apple is missing a valuable opportunity, in fact he guesses Apple would sell 5 million copies of OS X for x86 in the first week. Please keep in mind that over 86% of statistics are made up.

What Mike doesn't consider is the fact that if Apple were to do what Mike suggests Microsoft would take notice. They would work hard to crush Apple, something they really aren't too concerned with (at least not in the OS market). Add to that the fact that Apple would then be responsible for supporting OS X on a variety of hardware and you have a deal killer.

Sorry, Mike, but Steve won't go for it and I, for one, don't blame him.