Yes IT people are incredulous. Actually, IT people had no idea that MacOS X could even connect to the Internet and read that column in the first place.

Nobody puts a gun to anyone's head to read that column. It's ok to not agree with an opinion, but don't blame the author that "he wasted your time" because you read it.

The sensitivity of Mac users when anything bad is said about their platform of choice is part of the Apple culture the author wrote about.

Mainframe or AS/400 systems also have a virus count of zero (and they have been counting for over 3 decades), yet I don't see any OS/390 or OS/400 admin bragging about it in public Internet forums.

There are no viruses on Macs because virus writers are not interested in writing malicious code for a handful of systems worldwide. Most Mac users that bash Daniel's column actually *wish* that Apple was mainstream enough to interest virus writers.



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