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DrBB

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Sat Sep-20-03 03:32 PM
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7. Let's state the standard rejoinder, just to get it out of the way

Edited on Sat Sep-20-03 03:34 PM by DrBB

"If everyone had a Mac, there'd be a bazillion viruses for Macs out there!"

Some truth to it. On t'other hand OSX is built on top of Unix, and Unix is much more secure and resistant than Microsoft anything. A significant proportion of major webservers are Unix boxes, so where are the viruses successfully attacking them? Answer: why go for the hard target when you can go for the easy one. "Those who refuse to employ the Unix OS are doomed to reinvent it," as a friend once put it. Glad that Mac finally came around--would have done themselves a major favor, economically, if they hadn't been so stingy and close-fisted about their OS early on.

Gotta love OSX. Got my slick gui and editing tools, at the same time I'm running Apache webserver and PHP/MySQL for db stuff on my laptop. Woo hoo!

on edit: I see I wasn't quick quick enough on the "submit" button, DavidD! :hi:

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Reply #7: Let's state the standard rejoinder, just to get it out of the way [View All]