Apple is just about the only company that really benefits from that misconception (possibly by virtue of the fact that there's not really a "linux" company, tho

Apple is just about the only company that really benefits from that misconception (possibly by virtue of the fact that there's not really a "linux" company, though Canonical is trying) I wonder if it would be a reach to say that the average mac user (though when I think about it, a disproportionate amount of those users are probably devs) will hear about this on the news, and assume Apple has their back (which they do, I'm sure they'll force a patch soon if they haven't already) and not even know there's a UNIX system down there