On 14 Sep 2006 at 2:58, William T Goodall wrote: > > 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.
Nope. But to people like, say, the US Department of Defence, the difference is quite clear. A cursory google search shows how they're using large numbers of Linux systems, especially as heavy duty data processing units and servers. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
