Re: That nice Sony company

martin griffith wrote: 

AFAIU OSX is just a butchered version of Linux(whatever), and there
are so many gurus out there, the DRM stuff will be cracked and
disabled very quickly


No, it's BSD unix. Linux is GPL: they can't hide their modifications. BSD has a different license that lets vendors do pretty much what they want with the software, in particular, hide their own code mods.

Now, as to cracking Apple's possible malware, which system would be easier to do :-)?

John Perry
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