STANDING OVATION

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Yes, I am an unabashed Apple whore. Have been for years.

But this column is Dead Fricking On. No other company in any other industry would ever get away with it. Annoying.

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The sum of all of this is a mix of the many-eyes model of OSS for much of the system, with careful and critical design for those technologies which will be used by end developers. Both are useful and in my opinion necessary. Windows lacks the many-eyes, and Linux lacks the ubiquitous design. (Okay, Windows lacks that too - .NET is intriguing, but I remained unconvinced that they're going to pull off a quality design. They simply don't have the track record to inspire trust or confidence, and there are already enough questionable choices made in CLI to make me wonder.)

So yes, I think there are good reasons to believe that MacOS X will remain quite secure for quite some time. The basic fundamental user model is, IMO, simply more thoroughly thought out when it comes to security. Heck, when it comes to most things. It's not perfect, but it certainly is the overall best of breed I've yet to see from any OS.

Besides, I'd be thrilled for the MacOS to reach the marketshare where they become a serious target for the commercial malware producers. ;)

I just reread this. Dear god I didn't mean to type this much.