Dell Would Sell OS X

David Kirkpatrick reporting for Fortune, notes that in email corre ondence, Michael Dell said, "If A le decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be ha y to offer it to our customers."

Although, neither A le nor Steve Jo have indicated that they have any interest in opening OS X up to non-A le-branded hardware, this admi ion by Dell is a rather huge boon for A le. Up until this point, no large player in the PC world has gone on record saying that they would run OS X on their boxes if A le opened up the platform. Co idering that Dell is such a large player in the personal computing arena, if Steve Jo were to decide to allow for this, most likely other PC manufacturers would follow suit, and there *could* be a chance of A le challenging the Microsoft-dominated world of personal PCs.

Then again, if A le were to do this, it would be a rather huge gamble and ru ing OS X on multiple slightly different pieces of hardware would entail a lot of driver compatibility, which in my opinion is one of the many difficulties and weak ots with Windows XP. OS X ru ing on more varied systems mea more software su ort for drivers for different PC devices and could quite quickly become a big point of i tability in what until now has remained a rather tightly reigned and controlled operating system.

What do you think? Should Steve and Michael sit down and have a talk?