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Out of respect for your.. concerns about being ignored, I will reply and not snip any content this time. But this article *is* irrelevant; it deserves to be ignored. It...
Saying this is no more helpful than saying it is "inherent to Mac OS X". You have not told us what Unix does (or doesn't do) that produces this result; you are just waving the word "Unix" around like some sort of mantra.
I think it is reasonable to ask why Mac OS X has such a low incidence of malware compared to Windows.
I can think of several plausible explainations.
But I observe that Mac advocates *don't* explain it.
I find this telling.
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I have seen that answer before on this newsgroup, and I think it means that you have no idea what you are talking about; you are trying to conceal this fact by referencing a book which you are confident I won't read. I am then supposed to conclude that it somehow supports you.
I actually conclude that you have nothing to say and are just trying to deflect my demands that you say something. :D
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Er, omiting the registered-trademark symbol does not mean that "Unix" isn't a registered trademark.
What it tells is that advocates here (whether for Mac, Windows, or Linux) don't have the technical background and impartiality to write a fair buttessment that the rest...
Indeed, at this point that is *all* Unix still is. The term no longer refers to any particular codebase or anything like that.
Hmm.
It is not easy (on Usenet) to *prove* that Mac OS X supports the Unix security model; but you can check it for yourself if you have a Mac; you can use Unix command line tools to set up a setuid-root program and test it. If you do this, you will find that it works as advertised.
That this is a weakness in the Unix security model is, of course, quite uncontroversial.
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I suspect that I know more about it than you, actually, but it's still beside the point. It is *not* like Dashboard came from any Unix.
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