Open Source is a revolution like Ron Paul was a revolution. Yes, it's got some nice features, and it's good to have a viable third alternative, but at the same

Open Source is a revolution like Ron Paul was a revolution. Yes, it's got some nice features, and it's good to have a viable third alternative, but at the same time there's too much wrong with it to rely on it entirely. Apple needs a closed environment. They need to make money from selling their computers. They do so because they need to pay their programmers, who are among the best in the world. They have to pay their designers, who are quite possibly the best in the world. (Apple's won more Red Dot design awards than any other company or single designer, and they've won with a ridiculous margin.) Speaking as a consumer, I'm willing to pay money for good service. That's how the economy has worked for centuries, and I think it's a proven workable model. Apple's open enough for me. I can tweak everything I want, to my heart's content, because it runs on top of perfect Unix. I'm not a hardcore programmer, I don't yet see the point for emacs (though part of me feels that day is coming), but Terminal is enough to give me a keyboard-only environment when I need to do coding. Apple's got an excellent set of universal shortcuts, actually, which I don't recall Ubuntu having when I tried it. The set-up on a Mac requires me to actively approve any virus on my computer before it launches. That's pretty close to foolproof if I'm cautious about it. Apple recommends it, sure, because that's responsible of them. That doesn't make it absolutely necessary. On the other hand, when I installed Ubuntu, the graphics and sound cards on my perfectly-normal Dell box wouldn't show things right or play sound, installing third-party applications melted the entire thing, and eventually I had to reinstall Windows as well. The fact that Open Source makes it possible for me to accidentally destroy something (and I wasn't even messing with terminal) makes me think I'll stick with Apple, thanks.