xp on mac: grassroots nerd networking
how it works:
1. a guy wants his boss to buy him a macbook for work, if only it could run windows applications.
2. guy sets up a website to accept donations for a contest: first person to run xp on mac wins the money. if nobody wins by 3/31, money goes to charity.
3. site gets lots of publicity around the blogosphere and on tech news sites.
4. money pot grows to almost $14,000.
5. lots of nerds tinkering away on a solution. the winners write their own custom bootloader.
6. solution is submitted, verified and released to the public.
7. thousands of people around the world install the use the hack (myself included). it rocks.
8. winners get paid.
9. the community around the effort continues to collaborate on the same website (onmac.net), using the forums and wiki as a knowledge base to find out about new drivers, etc.
10. the xp on mac experience continues to get better and better. =)