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Replacement for Rosetta in Lion?
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1266265" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>It's important to understand that Rosetta is based on technology that Apple didn't create and doesn't own. They license the technology from Transitive. It may simply be that Apple feels that enough time has passed for the PowerPC to Intel transition that they don't need to keep on providing Rosetta and paying to license it .</p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/The-brains-behind-Apples-Rosetta-Transitive/2100-1016_3-5736190.html" target="_blank">The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive - CNET News</a></p><p></p><p>It is highly unlikely that anyone will be providing anything like Rosetta for you to use. Though there are rumors that Intuit is negotiating to license Rosetta to make Quicken run under Lion. (I wouldn't hold my breath...) </p><p></p><p>However, there *are* alternatives. For instance, you can partition your hard drive and put Snow Leopard (SN) on one partition and Lion on the other. You can do the same with an external hard drive too. However, dual-booting would mean that you couldn't use your Lion apps at the same time as your SN apps.</p><p></p><p>You could use virtualization software (e.g. Parallels, Fusion, Crossover) to run SN simultaneously with Lion, but that would both create licensing issues, and it would be sufficiently complex that such a solution would only appeal to nerds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1266265, member: 190607"] It's important to understand that Rosetta is based on technology that Apple didn't create and doesn't own. They license the technology from Transitive. It may simply be that Apple feels that enough time has passed for the PowerPC to Intel transition that they don't need to keep on providing Rosetta and paying to license it . [url=http://news.cnet.com/The-brains-behind-Apples-Rosetta-Transitive/2100-1016_3-5736190.html]The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive - CNET News[/url] It is highly unlikely that anyone will be providing anything like Rosetta for you to use. Though there are rumors that Intuit is negotiating to license Rosetta to make Quicken run under Lion. (I wouldn't hold my breath...) However, there *are* alternatives. For instance, you can partition your hard drive and put Snow Leopard (SN) on one partition and Lion on the other. You can do the same with an external hard drive too. However, dual-booting would mean that you couldn't use your Lion apps at the same time as your SN apps. You could use virtualization software (e.g. Parallels, Fusion, Crossover) to run SN simultaneously with Lion, but that would both create licensing issues, and it would be sufficiently complex that such a solution would only appeal to nerds. [/QUOTE]
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