[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I found this to be a very interesting(although yes, it's a blog) article that has a different view than I've seen on the topic.

Ping the mac users................

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Time to increase mac marketshare?

[Swordmaker]

Ten reasons why a resurgent Mac is great for Linux PING!!!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Terpfen]

Read this on OSNews, and I'm still laughing.

A resurgent Apple is bad news for Linux. It sucks up that OS' oxygen, not that it has much to talk about in the first place...

[Tribune7]

I don't really see anyone moving from Tiger to KDE but I generally that a growing Mac marketshare will be good for Linux.

[SunkenCiv]

Good for some laughs anyway.

"If, suddenly, Microsoft has a one-in-three chance of losing a desktop PC
sale to Apple, the market will understand that Microsoft no longer
commands complete control of the desktop market. That market is now open
and in flux. It becomes easier for any alternative to play in this
fluctuating market and compete against Microsoft. Linux is the prime
alternative to gain in a fluctuating market, when that market perceives
that Microsoft's momentum is impeded."

Linux is a fine way to get more use out of hardware abandoned by MicroSoft. That's one "market" where the Mac OS will not be a threat to Linux. :') What will happen is, for the few years before Steve Jobs bails on Intel and heads for AMD (or whatever else is around then), Linux use will expand because of the kajillions of machines which will enter the category of unsupported hardware, and there will be more Mac software around.

[antiRepublicrat]

Under his "Applications" entry, it looks like he's a fan of shovelware.

[Redcloak]

[A] user who migrates from Windows to the Mac will be far more comfortable in subsequently migrating from an OS X interface to a Linux interface (KDE/Gnome).

Perhaps, but a user who's migrated from Windows to a Mac has just spent a wad of cash on new hardware. There won't be a subsequent migration to Linux or any other OS for a while. That would mean pitching the pricey Apple hardware and spending still more money on i386 hardware.

A more likely scenario is that a resurgent Mac will cause more Windows users to consider other alternatives. When (and if) they learn that they can get an OS and GUI that's like what they'd get with the Mac, but without the budget-busting hardware bills, then Linux will be much more attractive. So in this sense, a resurgent Mac may expand a Windows user's comfort zone.