Your analogy is totally retarded: There are plenty of Development Environments other than XCode that are available for Mac OS X. However, only XCode and languages C, C++ and Objective-C are allowed for iPhone OS development. So to correct your analogy, here it goes. 'Just imagine the outcry if Microsoft banned all other development environments than Visual Studio and .NET from"WINDOWS MOBILE 7".' Apple has only been particularly sensitive about iPhone OS, not the desktop version of Mac OS X.

A true iPhone hacker will write a worm that will infect a 'vanilla' gold master iPhone running OSX as released by the vendor. If this genious is a smart as he claims; here is my challenge to him: 1. Have the same exploit code running in the worm, perform the same actions on a 'vanilla' iPhone. Modify your genious code, to, 1. Download / Run / Execute / Install all the tools it would like after a user clicks a link from a browser. **** My guess is that was too hard, so this idiot decided to use a jailbroken iPhone one which would allow him to install all the tools he needs without writing any exploit code to do that.

Sounds like DefectiveByDesign.org is misinformed. DRM is pushed to Apple iTunes (and other online media Shops like Rhapsody) by the record labels e.t.c. Even if the boycott is successfull, unless if it hurts the record labels they will continue to push this policy to all online content. iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster only sell what they are authorized to sell and what is in the contract. By the way, i dont believe Apple makes a lot of money from iTunes, it is simply a means to help sell the iPod. Record labels make most of the money. Solution: Boycott the record labels

Just to correct you my friend, i work with NOVELL servers, and i have people connecting to these using Prosoft Engineering NOVELL clients for Mac OS X. To connect to a Novell Server from Mac OS X all you need is the right client/s. you will find my favourite of the numerous novell clients at this site http://www.prosofteng.com/products/netware_client_ x.php/ The second correction!!! Newer versions of Mac OS X, are optimized for the higher end processors, if you run Mac OS X on a 233MHz what do you expect. I could even say that DOS 3.22 runs faster than linux on that same processor simply because DOS is well suited for lower end processors. If you do a benchmark test, btn Linux/Mac OS X on applications compiled for the IBM Power 970FX you will notice fluctuating results, for Databases(MySQL, Postgre) Linux might be slightly faster, on other things Mac OS X will be faster too. so really these 2 operating systems are in real competition. Mac OS X just works, Linux works, but with glitches here and there.