I can literally create my own Operating System from the ground up, line-by-line if I desire, with Linux. But I'm in the wild-wild west if I should do *anything* unusual. Everything is available to me, including sources. that extend, tweak, and refine the operations of the OS. (Even newer Macs!) I don't get to modify the OS per se, but there are plenty of ports for drivers, software, etc. In exchange for a bit of roughness around drivers and such, I get the opportunity to run it on anything X86. Windows, on the other hand, is more open. ugh) OSX is the most closed OS around - it's locked to specific hardware, there are no drivers that I can download anywhere, and it works how it works or I load in binary hacks that jeopordize the stability of the system. (The latest OSX doesn't work on my ancient cherry 400 Mhz PPC iMac anymore. I don't expect to run OSX on any old computer - it has to be an Apple but in exchange for this limitation I expect drivers and such to be more or less a non-issue, which it pretty much always has been. When you buy a product, ANY product, there's an implied agreement. (I'm a CTO / Software engineer, I have about a dozen computers in my house right now) I have computers running Linux, Windows, and MacOS all throughout my house. I have a problem with them dictating what I can and can't do with their stuff, especially when they'd previously indicated that I can do this. (as I type away on my Mac-mini) I would be UTTERLY LIVID if a Windows update horked my grub bootloader, Apple deserves no less rage for this shenanigan. Can you imagine if a Windows update made your computer unable to boot if you had it set up to dual-boot into Linux? Why do people rush to the defense of Apple when they completely f-BEEP-k up and make a mockery of their cheesy 'it just works' phrase?

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