Comment Creating a Market (Score 1) 669
Two things come to mind:
1) Symantec is encouraging a market (anti-virus software for Macs) that does not yet exist. Currently, why should Mac users need to buy anti-virus software? Perhaps if there were more of a threat for Mac systems (hint hint) Symantec could sell more copies of there software. All about the $$ if you ask me.
2) *BSD's are also affected by this challenge since OS X is based off Darwin which is based off FreeBSD. If Mac viruses become mainstream, the jump to Linux/Unix viruses will have been made. Although inevitable, I'm disappointed a corporation would be encouraging this behavior.