Thats a little unfair. In my experience this question and discussion comes up with in increased frequency at many of the tek meetups and forums I participate in. There was a massive shift to OSX in the time scales discussed, to the point where almost all the developers and designers I personally know where using OSX. It even became common for the occasional non apple hardware laptop to be singled out and form a basis for discussion itself!! Recently the tide does indeed seem to be shifting once more, and many who tried linux desktop before are tempted into trying once more. The recent high profile disparing positions by people such as Linus https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i and (lesser) Miguel de Icaza http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html make this a valid subject for discussion I believe.

thanks for the links. The article stunk of troll.

I wasn't even aware you *could* buy anti virus for android. but i guess it does make some sense, theres been a lot of malware in apps. I wonder if it would help detect that though?

Agreed The PC - Pro article is pure tabloid scaremongering. The closest published source i can find on bit defender site is this generic pdf http://www.bitdefender.com/media/materials/e-guides/uk/Protecting_Children_Online_Guide.pdf

I wonder out loud if its illegal to use code rather than the stated 'view source' 'method :) here i grab the whole fornt page and pop it into a text box... in one line of code :) http://www.freesome.com/node/233 I wonder who would be infringing in this case - me for writing the code... oyu for viewing my blog - or maybe my host!! wowsers