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	[quote name="motherhead"][quote name="Lufteufel"][quote name="Motherhead"]Easy. I have spent far, far more dollars on your overlord's offerings then on Apple's products. I <b>Don't</b> Hate Windows. [/quote] I don't hate Macs, I actually own two of them. But anyone buying OSX expecting to get a fully-compatible BSD distro likely to be disappointed at some point. Porting UNIX apps (and especially shared libraries) to OSX is often a non-trivial exercise. System administration is also substantially different than with BSD, just have a look at some of the standard configuration files in /etc to see what I mean. Granted, it's nice to have all that BSD stuff integrated right into the OS, rather than tacked-on like Cygwin. But it starts to look a lot less attractive when you consider that, for the price of a good Power Mac, you can build a top of the line Windows system, and still have enough left over for a nice Linux/BSD box. [quote] Though since i am a valued Microsoft Customer, let's talk about MS, Digital Rights Management, SDMI and the weird and interesting new EULA's I get when I hit the "software update" button.[/quote] Fair enough, and then lets talk about Apple threatening DVD-R vendors with the DMCA for hacking their drivers, etc. Nevertheless, it's certainly true that overall, Apple is far <i>less</i> evil than Microsoft. I still haven't upgraded to XP, and I refuse to install anything with that "product activation" bullshit. So you certainly shouldn't read my posts as an unconditional endorsement Microsoft products.[/quote] It would appear we're pretty much on the same page with all this, though I do add that 10.2 is still a very young OS. Since <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/view/e_spkr/137">Hubbard</a> is now on board with Apple, I'd expect better BSD is coming. [/quote]