Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx04.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: chrisv Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.freeware,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Message-ID: References: <051020151258277615%nospam@nospam.invalid> <3ZSdnZTmLryQJ4_LnZ2dnUU7-VmdnZ2d@supernews.com> <051020151617595944%nospam@nospam.invalid> <061020151150097105%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Complaints-To: abuse@fastusenet.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:59:08 UTC Organization: fastusenet - www.fastusenet.org Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:59:07 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 1850 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1600358675 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:81919 alt.comp.freeware:245092 comp.os.linux.advocacy:324951 Jolly Roger wrote: > chrisv wrote: >> >> "Mac users have the choice to run Photoshop and such, and Linux users >> don't, therefore Mac users have more choice than Linux users." >> >> Really? Is that the definition of choice? The huge variety that >> Linux offers (both "ready to run" and the limitless possibilities that >> being open-source offers) count for nothing, in the "choice >> sweepstakes"? > > Irrelevant since OS X runs open source software as well. Idiot. That doesn't give Mac users the same array of choice as Linux users have. Mac users have *one* way to do things - the (rather restrictive) way that the Apple Corp has decided to do it. Sheesh!