Comment Re:It doesnt matter... (Score 2, Informative) 304
This is not about being able to install apps, or setting a Mac up to do things. It's about someone with malicious coding intent knowing that by examining ONE Mac and writing their app to exploit a file that came with it, be it a library file, a bug in a config file, or a tweak to something like Safari. They can rely on EVERY Mac having those files installed, configured with the same exploit. Even if you install and use Firefox, do you remove Safari? What about iTunes? Even assuming you do that with the applications, the culture still exists for the stuff under the surface that you can't remove.
By comparison, if someone finds an exploit in Gnome in Ubuntu, for the short time that the window is open, it may only affect Gnome, but in other distros. It may not affect Fedora because of the way Fedora package Gnome. People who don't use Gnome at all won't be affected at all. If you find an exploit in Firefox on Fedora, it may affect every Fiefox, it may not for the same reasons, the distros package their own, often with their modifications. Those who don't like Firefox don't have it installed and are not affected.
Updates are going on all the time from both the distribution end and the upstream end which means that there's every chance someone else will spot the exploit you have, and patch it before you can get your malware written and deployed. Linux is a hugely diverse setup, which makes it a small moving target. You're not going to waste your time trying to hit that, specially when it all the development happens in the open.
By comparison, if someone finds an exploit in Gnome in Ubuntu, for the short time that the window is open, it may only affect Gnome, but in other distros. It may not affect Fedora because of the way Fedora package Gnome. People who don't use Gnome at all won't be affected at all. If you find an exploit in Firefox on Fedora, it may affect every Fiefox, it may not for the same reasons, the distros package their own, often with their modifications. Those who don't like Firefox don't have it installed and are not affected.
Updates are going on all the time from both the distribution end and the upstream end which means that there's every chance someone else will spot the exploit you have, and patch it before you can get your malware written and deployed. Linux is a hugely diverse setup, which makes it a small moving target. You're not going to waste your time trying to hit that, specially when it all the development happens in the open.