Kent Pribbernow is trying to stir up trouble at Digital Media Thoughts:
In a recent interview with Forbes Magazine, Steve Jobs makes the surprising claim that three of the top PC makers are asking him to license OSX for use on their PCs.
Hmmm. That might have been a smart move to make five or 10 years ago, but not now. Anyway, it’s never going to happen. Who’s going to write all those device drivers?
On the other hand, I would love to be able to run OS X on my PC, in a virtual machine powered by VMWare or Virtual PC (which would them have to be renamed Virtual Mac, presumably). I suspect that it could be done with relative ease if you could get permission to clone the Mac firmware.
Ed Bott 
Interesting Ed, and which software exactly would you want to run on a Mac? (I’m not aware of any killer app that Windows doesn’t have or share.)
Well, I hear good things about Entourage and might want to try that. I also understand there are some RSS readers for the Mac that do a bit more than their PC counterparts. Mostly, I would want to simply look at software and compare it to what’s available on the PC. So that’s a specialized need for someone in the industry and not a request that the average user would make.
I think they might be talking about this:
http://s87840517.onlinehome.us/pearpc.html
“…Mostly, I would want to simply look at software and compare it to what’s available on the PC.” Ed B.
Okay, you got me there. Just playing with OSX would be fun, too.
Drivers would be the big issue, as would potential loss of revenue for Apple’s hardware. I suppose they could get around the problem by only selling OS X pre-loaded on a few OEM machines and charging a hefty premium for it. But then you’d probably be best just buying a Mac anyway.
Drivers aren’t going to be as much an issue as you think. Apple didn’t write most of the “drivers” in OS X. They were already in BSD. Apple would no more have to “write the drivers” for OS X on a PC than any other *nix offshoot. Any hardware that’s supported by BSD x86 or x64 now will still work if Apple released a OS X GUI layer to run on it.