[citation][nom]AbdullahG[/nom]
How is Linux and Mac OS relevant to quantum computing? What sets apart quantum computing from standard computers in mainly transistors (and the fact that quantum computers use quantum mechanic principles).[/citation]
They're not, because that MS patent will keep them away from it for good.
Wow, lots of Linux fanboys on Tom's recently! What are you doing here?
Core 2 Duo is enough for toying with your OS, you don't need Tom's content
[citation][nom]stuart72[/nom]Microsoft are not actively engaged in producing working quantum computing devices. They never will be. Are research students / groups the world over now more likely to put in years of effort to realise a technolgy that microsoft already has the patents for or are they more likely to just think 'f**k it dude, let's go bowling'?[/citation]
But they will make an OS to work with them. And of course they don't want some open source BS to steal their profits! Besides, research WILL be done, whether they want it or not; Asia, or example, doesn't care about patents and copyrights at all, 90% of all software here is pirated. And it gets work done