Two points:
I hardly would categorize Mac OSX as being something that crashes a lot, as is implied. In 9 or so months my iBook G4 has experienced no OS crash and only two application crashes, neither required a reboot. If your going to bring up that old canard, at least use OS X before you bash it for stability.

Furthermore Apple did address security issues without requiring a payment from customers. Two weeks ago I updated an iMac running 10.2.4 to 10.2.8 and after the update the Software Update listed a number of security patches from this past spring. None of which cost me anything more than time. Obviously there could be more updates but Apple doesn't charge for all security updates.

And finally, those vulnerabilities from earlier this year were never found to have impacted machines "in the wild." I'd rather have a probable threat than a real threat, as in the Windows world.


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