On 14 Sep 2006, at 2:32AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 14 Sep 2006 at 2:22, William T Goodall wrote:
On 14 Sep 2006, at 1:47AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 13 Sep 2006 at 7:20, Gibson Jonathan wrote:
Agreed. Never made any other case except to point out a Mac is
better
secured than PC.
No, you're not. Because bluntly Mac's are just another OS as far as
security is concerned. It has none of the advantages of open source
code path review that Linux has in terms of security.
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html
"core". Not the entire OS, as GNU/Linux. THAT is the critical point.
It's not 'none' though is it? None/some/all are different you know.
OS X clearly has at least some of the open source advantages of Linux
and certainly a great more than Windows.
What about the proprietary ATI and Nvidia drivers on Linux? Or Flash?
Or Oracle? Or Java? It's possible to run a completely 'pure' open
source Linux, but how many actually are?
Purity Maru
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